{"id":23666,"date":"2019-11-17T21:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=23666"},"modified":"2019-11-18T08:59:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T08:59:15","slug":"wrc-19-day-15-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/2019\/11\/17\/wrc-19-day-15-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"WRC-19 Day-15: A Long Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The slipping schedule saw slow progress on Friday and consequently full overtime on Saturday and Sunday for future agenda items (AI-10), small-satellites (AI-1.7), 5G mobile (AI-1.13) and 5GHz Wi-Fi (AI-1.16). Overtime started early, with a queue to get in before the 9am Saturday start.<\/p>\n

\"\"The 8:40m Saturday morning queue<\/p>\n

AI-10 WRC-23\/27 Agenda: <\/strong>Late on Sunday night eventually the list of over 30 WRC-23 proposals was finally assembled for COM6 to consider on Monday, which will undoubtedly be a very long day (and evening!).<\/p>\n

Whilst 23cm\/Galileo is top of our unwanted list, six other proposals may also pose concerns if adopted \u2013 so careful attention is being given to the process, even if it was rather tedious and drawn out. One bright spot was the non-safety aeronautical proposal keeping away from 144 MHz despite pressures on all its other nominated bands.<\/p>\n

\"\"Dave Sumner K1ZZ of IARU keeping watch on Future Agenda Items<\/p>\n

AI-1.7 Small-sats:<\/strong> The degree of difficulty has been such was that all day Sunday had a long session on this topic. There is a strong interest in this item succeeding so that commercial applications get their own tele-command band and we can protect the integrity of the amateur satellite service. Senior Ofcom staff and RSGB witnessed a near intractable situation regarding the uplink ~149MHz frequency\/conditions for small-satellites (whereas the low power 137 MHz downlink seemed less problematic).<\/p>\n

\"\"AI-1.7: Small Satellites – Big Differences of views<\/p>\n

The challenges arising across the slippages in Week-3 are also a theme in the IARU\u00a0 Week-3 report<\/p>\n