ARLA/CLUSTER: África do Sul apoia a IARU na agenda para a WRC-19

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

South Africa to support the IARU position on WRC-19 agenda items affecting
Amateur Radio

The two-day Industry WRC-19 Preparatory meeting held last week recommended
that South Africa support the IARU position on agenda items that impact on
Amateur Radio.

The meeting considered the draft ITU Conference Preparatory Meeting report
(CPM) and developed the South African position which will now be discussed
at the SADC meeting and after that at the ATU meeting next month. The final
CPM report will be discussed later this year before the CPM meeting which
will be held prior to WRC in October. The final South African position will
then be submitted to cabinet for approval. This will form the guidelines
that the South African delegation will use in the WRC discussions.

Item 1.1 of the Agenda deals with 50 - 54 MHz. The SARL proposal to support
the global allocation of 50 - 54 MHz which is draft CPM option A, was
supported. For South Africa this means keeping the current allocation.
There are all indications that this agenda item will get Africa wide
support.

For agenda 1.13 the IARU proposed that 47.0 to 47.2 GHz be left as a
primary amateur allocation. This small portion of the 47 GHz was left
untouched although questions were asked what studies the amateur radio
community has carried out and what use the spectrum is planned for.

The SARL closely followed discussions on agenda items 1.15, 1.16 and 10.
Two agenda items of concern are those dealing with 2,3 and 5 GHz
allocations and the encroachment of Wi-Fi systems. Amateur Radio has
secondary allocations in those two bands.

The SARL participated in discussions on simplifying registration of
satellites with an operational life of 3 years and shorter. South Africa
played a major role in this agenda item and supports the initiative. The
agenda item to find new allocations for University CubeSats also resulted
in substantial discussions.

While this agenda item is not supported by many countries, the meeting felt
it is an important proposal and agreed to promote this at SADC and ATU
level. Currently many countries allow these satellites to operate on
amateur radio frequencies and see no need to find alternative frequency
allocations.

The SARL and AMSAT SA was represented by Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV

The South African Radio League <http://www.sarl.org.za/Default.asp>
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