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<h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Belgian radio amateurs meet regulator</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">UBA reports on Tuesday, June 19, Belgium's communications regulator<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">BIPT</strong><span> </span>met with it's stakeholders for a general presentation<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">A Google English translation of the UBA post says:<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"> <br style="box-sizing:border-box">UBA also received an invitation,<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Stefan ON6TI</strong><span> </span>and<span> </span><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Freddy ON3FDS</strong>attended this meeting.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Stefan and Freddy had a brief interview with the four BIPT council members. Messrs. Michel Van Bellinghen Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Supervisory Board members Luc Vanfleteren, Jack Hamande and Axel Desmedt.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The expected new KB (Koninklijk Besluit - Royal Decree) for radio amateurs is very close. We heard that an interministerial meeting took place that same morning, on which the new Royal Decree was also discussed.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Normally this KB could go into effect from 01.01.2019.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">In connection with WRC 2019, where the possibility exists to comment on the various proposals at the Radio Spectrum Policy Group of the European Commission until 20 July 2018, Mr Van Bellinghen and Mr Vanfleteren were asked whether BIPT could take into account the comments made by the radio amateurs.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Among other things, the expansion of the 6-meter band 50-54 MHz and the new developments around the radio amateur satellites.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">An affirmative reply was received from BIPT.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">UBA site in Google Englsih<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/BelgiumUBA" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">http://tinyurl.com/BelgiumUBA</a></p>
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