ARLA/CLUSTER: Novo episodio da Ham Radio Now sobre a banda dos 60m e a WRC-15

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Ham Radio Now: A 60-Meter Band ?

Gary Pearce KN4AQ talks to the ARRL's Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Brennan Price N4QX about WRC-15 and the ARRL's Symbol Rate request

Today hams in the USA and most of the world have a few discrete
60-Meter channels. A more traditional band is a small part of the
proposal that the FCC is preparing as the US's submission to WRC-15,
the World Radio Conference coming in November, 2015. That set of
"draft recommendations" is open for public comment until February 18.*

In this episode, ARRL's CTO Brennan Price N4QX explains where we are
in this process (early), and what happens next (a lot, fast). The
FCC's proposal, covering the "private sector" of communications (Radio
and TV, your cell phone, ham radio, business and public-safety two-way
radio, etc.), gets mashed up with what the NTIA wants for the
government. That result gets mixed with other country's ideas in the
Americas, and then it all goes off to Geneva to get hammered out at
the WRC.

The idea of a 60-Meter band isn't just ours. It was actually proposed
by Cuba, which just authorized their hams a very small band. The FCC
is recommending a bigger band (the negotiations ended up with 175 kHz
worth, but don't expect that to survive to the end).

We also talk a little about the ARRL's Symbol Rate request for rule
making that just closed. That's gonna have to be a whole show sometime
soon. And Gary asks Brennan about the 472 kHz ham band (the 630 Meter
Band) that the ITU agreed on at the 2012 WRC (where is it?).

* If you're a microwaver, 60 meters is an afterthought... sorry. The
Ham Radio GHz bands are also addressed in the WRC items, but we didn't
get to that in this talk.

Watch Episode 131: A 60-Meter BAND? Maybe !



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