<div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.4px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">50 MHz band in Region 1</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">IARU Region 1 President <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Don Beattie G3BJ</strong> reports on the 50 MHz allocation agreed at the 2019 <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">World Radiocommunication Conference</strong> (WRC-19) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The IARU-R1 post says:<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Radio amateurs around Region 1 will have seen the announcement about the outcome at WRC 2019, in which a Region-wide allocation in the Radio Regulations in the 50 MHz band has been agreed.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">This has come about after over three weeks of discussions and negotiations at WRC in Egypt, where IARU alone was representing the amateur service. Some 14 people, both in the IARU delegation and some in national delegations, helped argue the IARU case – eventually to a satisfactory outcome.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">I am sure everyone will join me in acknowledging the work done by the IARU team, and thank everyone involved for an outstanding effort over the last four years to achieve this result.  <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Don Beattie, G3BJ</strong><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></em>President IARU Region 1<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the IARU-R1 50 MHz announcement at<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php/174-news/latest-news/1917-wrc-19-approves-region-1-50-mhz-amateur-allocation" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php/174-news/latest-news/1917-wrc-19-approves-region-1-50-mhz-amateur-allocation</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">RSGB 50 MHz report<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/2019/11/21/wrc-19-day-19-50-mhz-approved/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/2019/11/21/wrc-19-day-19-50-mhz-approved/</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">IARU-R1 <a href="https://www.iaru-r1.org/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.iaru-r1.org/</a></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>