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WRC-12 Day 11 – 2 February 2012 – Impasse

Agenda Item 1.23 – 500kHz

Working Group 4 met during the afternoon of Thursday with little
progress on this agenda item. Although footnotes were tidied up and,
with one exception, agreed, the administration of Iran insisted on
maintaining their No Change (NOC) position. As a consequence, the
proposals will now be forwarded to Committee 4, which is the
penultimate authority before the plenary meetings. The fundamental
question of whether or not there should be an allocation in this
frequency band remains while NOC positions are maintained.

Agenda Item 1.15 – HF Oceanic Radar

A similar situation exists with discussions still continuing at the
sub working group level. This item needs to be elevated to working
group level by the end of the week but indications at the time of
writing are that a segment at 5250-5275kHz on a primary basis may be
agreed. The position remains flexible, however.

Agenda Item 8.2 – Future Agenda Items

Ongoing discussions include those on a possible 5MHz allocation to the
amateur service plus a late proposal from the Netherlands for studies
to identify frequencies for Cubesats and Nanosats.


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WRC-12 Day 10 – 1 February 2012 – Movement forward


Agenda Item 1.23 – 500kHz

The 12th and final meeting of the sub working group took place in the
late afternoon and continued into the evening. After intense lobbying
during the day a way forward was agreed with China and the Russian
Federation, agreeing to text after their concerns into protection of
the aeronautical radionavigation servce was taken into consideration.
That said, however, Iran and the Arab Spectrum Management group are
still insisting on their No Change (NOC) position. The negotiations
now move up a notch to Working Group 4C, which is dealing with amateur
and maritime issues. The principal question of whether or not there
should be an allocation in this frequency band remains while NOC
positions are maintained.

Agenda Item 1.15 – HF Oceanic Radar

No real progress is being made on this agenda item despite a growing
number of meetings. If we thought progress on the 500kHz proposal was
slow then we should consider ourselves fortunate we are not playing an
active part in these discussions. Frequency segments are identified,
agreed and then discarded. CEPT is currently supporting an allocation
at 5MHz but at least one regional group is questioning whether it is
really needed. At least 7 meetings are scheduled for this subject on
Thursday.

Agenda Item 8.2 – Future Agenda Items

There is a move by the ITU to reduce the number of agenda items being
considered for future conferences and to achieve this, steps are being
taken to try and combine the large number of IMT proposals being
received. There is no progress to report on the Cuban proposal for a
secondary 50kHz segment at 5MHz but support is being sought from
administrations already permitting amateur operations on this band.






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WRC12 reports from the RSGB

For the duration of the The World Radiocommunication Conference 2012
(WRC-12), Colin Thomas, G3PSM will be giving an amateur radio
perspective on the proceedings of the conference.

http://www.rsgb.org/WRC-12-news/