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<H1>CEPT and WRC-12 Preparatory Meetings</H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Meeting input documents for some of the next sessions of
CEPT and WRC-12 preparatory meetings can be downloaded from the web.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>With the holiday season in Europe almost over it is time
for your IARU representatives to prepare themselves for the next sessions of
CEPT and WRC-12 preparatory meetings.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>These are the September meetings that need to be attended
to protect existing amateur radio services and to progress WRC-12 agenda
items.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>CEPT Spectrum Engineering 24</STRONG> (SE24) is a
group that studies, amongst other matters, <STRONG>Short Range Devices (SRD),
Ultra Wide Band (UWB) and Short Range Radars (SRR). SRDs and SRRs are of
particular interest to the amateur services with most SRDs active within the
70cm band.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>SRRs (Vehicle anti-collision radars) use 24 GHz and
76 GHz and talks are aimed at ensuring that no interference is caused to the
amateur services</STRONG>. Peter Chadwick G3RZP will be present at the next
meeting which takes place in Montegrotto, Italy between the 30th August and 3rd
September.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>At the same time a meeting of CEPT Conference Preparatory
<STRONG>Team Project Team C</STRONG> will take place in Kristiansand, Norway
between 1st and 3rd September. This group is studying a number of <STRONG>WRC-12
agenda items including 1.23, which is the proposal for an amateur allocation
around 500 kHz</STRONG>. Colin Thomas G3PSM is the CEPT Coordinator for this
item and national delegations will include John Gould G3WKL (UK), Ulrich Mueller
DK4VW (Germany) and Peter Frey HB9MQM (Switzerland). It is hoped that other
radio amateurs might join their national delegations where possible.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>A meeting of <STRONG>CEPT Working Group Radio Affairs (WGRA
/ RA Working Group)</STRONG> takes place in Ljubljana, Slovenia between the 14th
and 17th September. Sub group 2 deals with amateur radio matters, primarily
focusing on <STRONG>T/R 61-01 and T/R 61-02 matters</STRONG>. IARU is
represented at these meetings by Bram van den Berg PB0AOK.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>CEPT Working Group Frequency Management (WGFM / FM
Working Group)</STRONG> meetings in Goteborg, Sweden between the 20th and 24th
September. The work of this group includes the study of a report on the possible
use of digital broadcast below 80 MHz. While many European countries have local
<STRONG>arrangements regarding the use of 50-52 MHz </STRONG>by the amateur
service there is obvious concern that this report may have some impact on these
arrangements. Panayot Danev LZ1US looks after the interests of the amateur
service in this working group.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Finally a meeting of the CEPT Conference Preparatory Group
for WRC-12 (CPG-12) takes place in Berlin between the 28th September and the 1st
October. This group consolidates the work of the various teams studying WRC-12
agenda items and comes to agreement on the various European Common Proposals
(ECP). An ECP requires the agreement of at least 10 national administrations
with no more than 6 administrations objecting. If adopted an ECP is taken
forward to the World Radiocommunications Conference as the view of the 49 member
countries of the CEPT.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>To download the meeting documents follow these
steps:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>1. Go to the ECO (formerly ERO) home page </FONT><A
href="http://www.ero.dk/" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.ero.dk/</FONT></A><BR><FONT face=Tahoma>2. Under the 'ECC
Activities' drop-down menu select 'ECO Meeting Documents'<BR>3. In 'Select
Group: ' select 'SE24' or another group such as 'FM Working Group' (WGFM) or RA
Working Group or Conference Preparatory Group<BR>4. In 'Select Year: ' select
'2010' (or CPG-2012)<BR>5. Expand the meeting venue eg 'SE24 M55
August-September 2010 Montegrotto '<BR>6. Expand 'Input' or 'Documents'<BR>7.
Tick all the documents you wish to download<BR>8. Click on the 'download
Selected' button (top right)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>European Communications Office (ECO formerly
ERO)<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.ero.dk/" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.ero.dk/</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications
Administrations (CEPT)<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.cept.org/"
target=_blank><FONT face=Tahoma>http://www.cept.org/</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>IARU Region 1<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.iaru-r1.org/"
target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.iaru-r1.org/</FONT></A></P></BODY></HTML>