ARLA/CLUSTER: ARRL responde à National Telecommunications and Information Administration sobre a banda dos 60m

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

NTIA's stance on 5 MHz proposal for WRC-15

The ARRL has filed comments regarding the stance of the NTIA on
WRC-15 Agenda Item 1.4 on a 5 MHz amateur service allocation

In a post on their website the ARRL say:

The ARRL is taking issue with the World Radiocommunication Conference
2015 (WRC-15) stance of the National Telecommunications and
Information Administration (NTIA) with respect to an upgraded 60 meter
Amateur Radio allocation. In response to WRC-15 agenda item 1.4, the
NTIA has called for no change at 5250-5450 kHz

The League said in comments filed September 24 in IB Docket 04-286
that while it concurs with the NTIA’s view regarding 5250 to 5275 kHz
— allocated to the radiolocation service for oceanographic
applications at WRC-12 — the rest of the agency’s proposal is
“unsupportable in light of actual domestic and international practice
and contains assertions of incompatibility that are demonstrably not
correct.” The US has authorized Amateur Radio secondary operation on
five discrete channels in the 5275-5450 kHz range for more than a
decade, the ARRL pointed out, with no instances of unresolved
interference to primary users.

“Against this backdrop, the stated reason for the no-change proposal —
that ‘[e]xperience has shown that sharing is not possible between the
Amateur Service and the fixed and mobile service’ — fails the
straight-face test,” the ARRL said in its comments.

Read the ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/
arrl-takes-issue-with-ntia-s-wrc-15-proposal-for-5-mhz

NTIA letter to FCC February 21, 2014
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/
ntia_aa_coord_letter_to_fcc_on_agenda_items_1_1_
3700-4200_mhz_1_1_noc_above_6425_and_1_4_noc.pdf

ARRL comments to FCC
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6018760116