{"id":13773,"date":"2015-11-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=13773"},"modified":"2015-11-20T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:30:00","slug":"wrc-15-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2015\/11\/20\/wrc-15-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WRC-15 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itu.int\/en\/ITU-R\/conferences\/wrc\/2015\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">World Radio Conference<\/a> in Geneva finally approved a new amateur service allocation at 5MHz.<\/p>\n<p>Although only a small allocation of 15kHz between 5351.5 &#8211; 5366.5kHz was agreed, it is the first new allocation at HF since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itu.int\/en\/history\/Pages\/RadioConferences.aspx?conf=101&amp;dms=S0201000039\" target=\"_blank\">WARC of 1979<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After intense pressure from the fixed service primary user, power limits have been set at 15 watts EIRP in regions 1 and 3, 20 watts EIRP in Mexico and 25 watts EIRP in Central America, South America and most of the Caribbean area.<\/p>\n<p>The new Radio Regulations will not come into force until 1 January 2017 but it will be for individual administrations to agree local arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>No change is expected to the current spectrum allocation at 5MHz within the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Regular updates from Colin Thomas, G3PSM who is attending the conference and other background information are at <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/wrc-15\">www.rsgb.org\/wrc-15<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the World Radio Conference in Geneva finally approved a new amateur service allocation at 5MHz. Although only a small allocation of 15kHz between 5351.5 &#8211; 5366.5kHz was agreed, it is the first new allocation at HF since the WARC of 1979. After intense pressure from the fixed service primary user, power limits have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}