{"id":13750,"date":"2015-11-20T11:06:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T11:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=13750"},"modified":"2015-11-20T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T12:52:09","slug":"wrc-15-day-13-a-new-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/2015\/11\/20\/wrc-15-day-13-a-new-band\/","title":{"rendered":"WRC-15 &#8211; Day-13, A New Band&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6612\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2013\/05\/WRC15-logo-150x148.png\" alt=\"ITU WRC-15\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2013\/05\/WRC15-logo-150x148.png 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2013\/05\/WRC15-logo.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Lucky 13! \u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; for the amateur service, as <strong>Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz)<\/strong> passed the final two readings without any comment whatsoever. Although the 15kHz that has been agreed at ITU level is a very small international allocation, this is the first new allocation to the amateur services at HF since the WARC of 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Future Items:<\/strong> Committee-6 meets tomorrow morning, though the agenda does not show any discussion regarding future agenda items. There is fierce competition to be included on the WRC-19 agenda and the amateur radio services are way down the order of priorities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">However as the proposal for 50-54 MHz alignment was made by two Regional Telecommunications Organisations (CEPT and the Arab Group) there may be some hope of inclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile discussions regarding spectrum for space operations with smallsats continue, currently without any sign of completion.<\/p>\n<p>73<br \/>\nColin, G3PSM<\/p>\n<p>NB: Further background and updates are at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/wrc-15\">rsgb.org\/wrc-15<\/a> and in our news<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky 13! \u00a0&#8211; for the amateur service, as Agenda Item 1.4 (5 MHz) passed the final two readings without any comment whatsoever. Although the 15kHz that has been agreed at ITU level is a very small international allocation, this is the first new allocation to the amateur services at HF since the WARC of 1979. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wrc-15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}