Special Focus
WRC-15 – Day-12
Future Items: The revised 50-54 MHz proposal for a possible future agenda item received its reading and agreement in Working Group 6B with the U.S. reserving its position. This means that the proposal moves up a level to Committee 6 but is still a long way from being accepted as a future agenda item. There […]
WRC-15 – Day-11 – start of Week-3
Progress is slow but steady… 5MHz: The 5 MHz item has cleared another hurdle and hopefully it will be tabled at a Plenary meeting scheduled for Wednesday, when it will receive two readings. The approval of the last reading is a key milestone, subject of course to the final signing and national administration processes. 50MHz: […]
WRC-15 – Day-10 – end of Week-2
A quiet day in comparison to recent days saw progress for a number of amateur service associated agenda items. Future Proposals (AI-10): The 50 MHz proposal that was approved at drafting group level suffered a minor setback when presented to working group 6B. Iran insisted that a footnote concerning their usage of frequencies at 50 […]
WRC-15 – Days 8 and 9
Finally a little progress!… 5MHz: An allocation at 5351.5-5366.5 kHz was agreed with regional variations in power between 15 W eirp/20 W eirp and 25 W eirp. In Region 1 this equates to a power output of 60 W. This was passed up to the next stage to Committee 4B where it was approved with […]
WRC-15 – Day-7
Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz): Two steps forward and one step back might be a polite description of progress on Tuesday regarding 5 MHz and the consideration of permitted power. Some administrations are insisting on the use of tight eirp limits. We have already overrun the schedule allowed for the sub-working group discussions and the […]
WRC-15 – Day-6, start of Week-2
Agenda Item 1.4 (5MHz): After a weekend of informal meetings, official business re-commenced on Monday morning. Despite the efforts of a number of pro-allocation administrations, intense pressure from a number of major opponents reduced the proposed band down to 15 kHz. In return for this major compromise, some ‘No Change’ proponents agreed to change their […]
