{"id":33375,"date":"2023-11-23T21:07:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=33375"},"modified":"2023-11-23T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T21:18:08","slug":"wrc-23-day-34-23cms-recommendation-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/front-page-news\/2023\/11\/23\/wrc-23-day-34-23cms-recommendation-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"WRC-23 Days-3+4: 23cms Recommendation and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33377\" title=\"23cm Band &amp; RNSS\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IARU_RNSS-300x209.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IARU_RNSS-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IARU_RNSS-150x105.png 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IARU_RNSS.png 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/>Wednesday (Day-3) saw the start of the discussions on Agenda-Item 9.1b &#8211; regarding Radio Navigation Satellites\u00a0 and Amateur Radio in 1240-1300MHz. This and further sessions on VHF Radar Sounders and Space Weather continued on Thursday.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Events were usefully preceded by the prompt publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/dms_pubrec\/itu-r\/rec\/m\/R-REC-M.2164-0-202311-I!!PDF-E.pdf\"><strong>ITU-R Recommendation M.2164<\/strong><\/a> which had been agreed in the preceding ITU Radio Assembly and has detailed guidance on power levels, frequencies and even antenna elevation angles.<\/p>\n<p>The ITU recommendation can look complex, so IARU has also provided some summary slides. Some useful links:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r1.org\/2023\/itu-r-recommendation-m-2164-on-23cm-amateur-service-and-rnss-operations-now-published-in-time-for-wrc-23-discussions\/\">IARU 23cm News Item<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/dms_pubrec\/itu-r\/rec\/m\/R-REC-M.2164-0-202311-I!!PDF-E.pdf\"><strong>ITU-R Recommendation M.2164<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaru-r1.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ITU-R-M.2164-Summaryr1.pdf\"><strong>IARU Summary<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Overview Slides<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/pub\/R-REP-M.2532\"><strong>ITU-R Report M.2532<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Amateur characteristics and usage in 1240-1300MHz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The defining background was laid out by <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2020\/06\/WRC23_23cms_ITU-Res-774.pdf\"><strong>ITU Resolution-774<\/strong><\/a> four years before back at the end of WRC-19.<\/p>\n<p>The publication is not the end of the story. The WRC-23 discussions have been well attended and quickly became challenging regarding the CEPT position of going even further &#8211; via &#8216;incorporating by reference&#8217; into the ITU Radio Regulations treaty. This would in effect would elevate it from &#8216;guidance&#8217; to mandatory.\u00a0 Despite a number of efforts on Thursday, consensus was not achieved and the issue is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>One item that did bring some light relief after a difficult Wednesday session was the USA Delegation evening event. This is sponsored by various organisations &#8211; one of which took us by surprise on a huge twin screen and was a great piece of outreach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-33378\" title=\"ARRL was a sponsor of the USA ITU Association event - Photo by WB3ERA\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_0038-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_0038-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_0038-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_0038-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_0038-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_0038-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_0038-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2023\/11\/IMG_0038.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/news\/rsgb-live-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB\u2019s social media<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and special focus page at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/wrc-23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rsgb.org\/wrc-23<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will feature regular postings whilst the conference is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday (Day-3) saw the start of the discussions on Agenda-Item 9.1b &#8211; regarding Radio Navigation Satellites\u00a0 and Amateur Radio in 1240-1300MHz. This and further sessions on VHF Radar Sounders and Space Weather continued on Thursday.\u00a0 Events were usefully preceded by the prompt publication of ITU-R Recommendation M.2164 which had been agreed in the preceding ITU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20382,"featured_media":33377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-wrc-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33375","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\/20382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}