Topband: Progress of the Proposed 472 - 479 kHz Allocation

[donovanf at starpower.net]

Here's the status as of 9 February of the proposed 472 kHz allocation.

http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2012-02-09

WRC-12: Agenda Item 1.23 Passes Committee, Moves to Plenary

Agenda Item 1.23 -- creating a 7 kilohertz-wide amateur secondary allocation between 472-479 kHz -- is expected to get its first reading in Plenary Session on Friday, February 10. The new allocation will not be official until it is read a second time in Plenary, which should happen sometime next week.

On the afternoon of February 7, Committee 4 of the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) approved Option 1 to satisfy Agenda Item 1.23, with minor editorial amendments to the text received from Working Group 4C. Option 1 calls for a worldwide secondary allocation to the Amateur Service at 472-479 kHz, with a power limit of 1 W EIRP, with a provision for administrations to permit up to 5 W EIRP for stations located more than 800 km from certain countries that wish to protect their aeronautical radionavigation service (non-directional beacons) from any possible interference. Option 2 was NOC (no change to the current rules).

In keeping with the rules of the Conference, Committee decisions must be read twice in Plenary Session; the decision of the Conference is not final until after second reading in Plenary. According to ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, quite a few additional administrations -- mainly in the former Soviet Union and Arab states -- will be adding their country names to the Footnotes prior to consideration in Plenary. Sumner said that Agenda Item 1.23 should have its first reading in the Plenary on Friday, February 10, with its second reading sometime next week.

73
Frank
W3LPL

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:02:01 -0800
>From: Tree <tree at kkn.net>  
>Subject: Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The "Gentleman's Band"...  
>To: topband at contesting.com
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>On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:59 AM, chacuff <chacuff at cableone.net> wrote:
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>> Or move to the new Topband....500Khz....
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>Exactly.  For those that missed it - there is more here:
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>http://www.arrl.org/news/world-radiocommunication-conference-2012-begins-today-in-switzerland-will-consider-secondary-mf-amat
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>Tree N6TR
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>UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK