ARLA/CLUSTER: Proposta de aumento de potencia de 10 para 50 W para os radioamadores iniciados na Austrália.

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

50 watts for Australian Foundation ?

A submission by Australia's WIA to their regulator the ACMA suggests
Foundation power level could be increased to 50 watts

They say Foundation station signals often struggle to rise above the
prevailing RF noise levels experienced both in Australia and by
amateurs in other countries. Competing with urban noise levels is
exacerbated in mobile situations, particularly on the bands above 30
MHz.

Many commercial transceivers currently available (HF and VHF-UHF)
afford operation at the suggested 50 watts power, more so than those
that conform to the current permitted power of 10 watts.

The WIA notes that the permitted power for entry level licences varies
widely around the world, up to 1500 watts in the case of the US
Technician licence.

Australian is possibly unique in adopting 7 character callsigns for
its Foundation holders. The WIA is asking ACMA to review this since "a
majority of the available range of computer-mediated digital
transmission modes cannot accommodate a four-character suffix
callsign. If our Foundation licensees are permitted use of digital
transmission modes, their callsigns would preclude using them."

The Australian Standard licence is similar to the UK Intermediate.
Current Standard licence holders can run 100 watts output, the WIA
wish to increase that to 200 watts. For the Advanced licence they
would like power increased to 1000 watts.

Read the WIA submission Future Amateur Licence Conditions
http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2016/20160413-4/documents/ACMA%20LCD%20submission_FINAL_Apr16.pdf