WRC-15
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 […]
WRC-15 – Day-5, End of Week-1
Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz): Some progress was made during the course of the Friday morning session. The various African organisations agreed to merge their proposal resulting in a proposal of 100 Watts between 5350-5400 kHz which will be considered alongside other proposals. Unfortunately other administrations are refusing to move from their position for a […]
WRC-15 – Day-4
Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz) continues to occupy the time of the IARU and national society delegates attending. Intensive debate centred around the amount of spectrum required and power limitations, with a very wide divergence of views – the former ranging from 15 to 100 kHz, the latter between 0.1W and 200 Watts (as well […]
WRC-15 – Day-3
Mainly a day of frustrations for all concerned, but slow progress was made with Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz). The proposal from CITEL, representing a number of American States, was reduced to align with the CEPT proposal for 100 kHz, while the Arab Spectrum Management Group also agreed Group also agreed to increase their proposal […]
WRC-15 – Initial Sessions, inc. 5 MHz
As expected Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz) provoked much discussion and little progress was made. A total of 16 proposals and one information paper were introduced and every paper not containing a No Change (NOC) proposal was objected to by a certain administration. At the end of the second meeting session it was decided that […]
