{"id":22586,"date":"2019-06-21T14:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=22586"},"modified":"2019-07-04T22:41:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T22:41:56","slug":"update-on-144mhz-and-23cm-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2019\/06\/21\/update-on-144mhz-and-23cm-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on 144MHz and 23cm threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaru.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>IARU<\/strong><\/a> was represented this week at the meeting of <a href=\"https:\/\/cept.org\/ecc\/groups\/ecc\/cpg\/cpg-pt-a\/client\/introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CEPT Project Team A<\/strong><\/a>\u2014one of the groups leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/en\/ITU-R\/conferences\/wrc\/2019\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WRC-19<\/strong><\/a> preparations\u2014which finished in Prague on Friday, 21 June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular interest were discussions on two proposed agenda items for WRC-23, concerning the sharing of the 1240-1300MHz band with the Galileo satellite navigation system and the proposal from France to study a range of frequencies, including the 144MHz amateur band, for future primary aeronautical applications.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting considered views that the Galileo issue did not currently warrant a WRC23 agenda item and should be first investigated within <a href=\"https:\/\/cept.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>CEPT<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, regarding new aeronautical frequencies including 144MHz, the proposal was unfortunately not strongly opposed by other administrations; this has been carried forward to the higher level CEPT-CPG meeting in August.<\/p>\n<p>The IARU and RSGB views with grave concern any proposal to include the global amateur and amateur satellite 144MHz primary band in the proposed aeronautical agenda item; and will be making every effort to fully protect amateur radio interest and seek the support of regulators in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>More details at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r1.org\/index.php\/174-news\/latest-news\/1868-wrc23-agenda-items-update-from-cept-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>iaru-r1.org<\/strong><\/a> and on the RSGB&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/news\/special-focus\/wrc-19\/wrc-19-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WRC-19 special focus pages<\/strong><\/a> where you can find all the latest meeting documents and minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IARU was represented this week at the meeting of CEPT Project Team A\u2014one of the groups leading WRC-19 preparations\u2014which finished in Prague on Friday, 21 June 2019. Of particular interest were discussions on two proposed agenda items for WRC-23, concerning the sharing of the 1240-1300MHz band with the Galileo satellite navigation system and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-wrc-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22586","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=22586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}