ARLA/CLUSTER: Encontro Preparatório da IARU para a Conferencia ITU WRC 2019

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

IARU attends ITU Conference Preparatory Meeting

IARU delegates from around the world attended the ITU Conference
Preparatory meeting for WRC 2019, which took place in February 2019

IARU Region 1 says:

This report covers the CPM19-2 meeting in Geneva which was held
between 18/2/2019 and 28/2/2019. The purpose of the meeting was to
revise the ‘Draft CPM Report’ which contains the initial negotiating
positions for work at WRC-19.
It is important that the amateur service influences development of the
text so that the interests and needs of the amateur service are
reflected as much as possible.
The CPM report is a complex document of approximately 700 pages and it
covers all of the WRC-19 agenda items; the CPM is more-or-less the
conclusion of the continuous work on all these agenda items over
almost 3 years since the previous WRC.
This short report only focuses on what are thought to be the main
issues for the amateur service at WRC-19, noting that other issues may
arise before and during WRC-19.

The specific amateur item for WRC19 is agenda item 1.1 covering a
possible 6 m allocation in ITU-R Region 1. Sub-working group 5A
(SWG5A) chaired by Dale, VK1DSH from Australia, was assigned the task
of revising the CPM text for this agenda item.
Over several days of meetings, the draft CPM text was revised using
material from input contributions submitted by ITU members including
IARU and text developed during the WP5A/SW1 meetings.
The end result was four methods going forward to WRC-19 which may be
used to address the agenda item. The methods span from a 4 MHz primary
allocation through a mix of primary and secondary allocations to
several secondary allocations ranging from 200 kHz to 2 MHz in
addition to the “no allocation at all” alternative. The meetings were
challenging because of strong opposition to a reasonably sized and
primary allocation by a number of administrations and ITU members.

Agenda item 9.1.6 covers Wireless Power Transmission for Electric
Vehicles (WPTEV) and the current status is that it’s likely that no
changes will be made to the Radio Regulations. This situation doesn’t
remove the threat to the amateur service; it more likely means that
the focus of the amateur service efforts will need to move to Regional
Telecommunications Organisations and to standards organisations
including CISPR (which sets emission limits).

Agenda item 1.16 covers RLAN spectrum and might impact the 5650 – 5850
MHz amateur band. One of the proposed methods overlaps the amateur
allocation above 5725 MHz and if this method is adopted by WRC-19 then
there may be issues for the amateur service.

Agenda item 1.13 covers new spectrum for IMT in the bands above 24
GHz. The band most likely to be impacted is our primary allocation 47
– 47.2 GHz and potentially our allocations around 77 GHz. No sharing
studies of the 47 GHz band were conducted during the study period;
however, even if the 47 GHz band escapes attention at WRC-19 it may
very well come up as an agenda item for WRC-23 so we will need to be
prepared to defend the band in the future.

It is important to remember that although this was the CPM set out to
present all possible solutions (methods) to the various agenda items,
the WRC can make its own decisions regarding band allocations
irrespective of agreed CPM methods. It is therefore important for IARU
to fully participate in negotiations at WRC-19 to obtain the best
possible outcome for the amateur and amateur satellite services.

Source IARU Region 1 http://iaru-r1.org/