The ITU‑R Radio Assem­bly (RA) met dur­ing the week before the World Radio Con­fer­ence in Dubai. The IARU par­tic­i­pat­ed in the meet­ing and con­tributed to the devel­op­ment of the draft ITU‑R Rec­om­men­da­tion for 23cm band ama­teur oper­a­tions along­side the co-fre­quen­­cy … Read more →

Work­ing Par­ty 5A meet­ing #30 met over the peri­od 13th to 22nd Sep­tem­ber 2023 and despite extra meet­ing time allo­cat­ed specif­i­cal­ly to the devel­op­ment of the ITU‑R Rec­om­men­da­tion M.[AS_GUIDANCE] the meet­ing did not reach a con­sen­sus on the tech­ni­cal and … Read more →

ITU‑R Work­ing Par­ty 4C meet­ing #30 could not agree on the tech­ni­cal and oper­a­tional mea­sures required to ensure the pro­tec­tion of the RNSS (radio nav­i­ga­tion satel­lite ser­vice) in the ama­teur 23cm band. (Relat­ing to WRC-23 AI 9.1b).

Work­ing Par­ty 4C … Read more →

Over the peri­od 9th to 19th May 2023, the prepara­to­ry work for WRC-23 agen­da item 9.1b con­tin­ued in ITU‑R Work­ing Par­ty 5A (WP5A). Two deliv­er­ables are under discussion:

1) Draft ITU‑R Report M.[AMATEUR_CHARACTERISTICS] – this reports on the spe­cif­ic 23cm … Read more →

WRC23 – agen­da item 9.1b

The IARU main­tains the view that the like­li­hood of wide­spread and per­sis­tent inter­fer­ence from ama­teur radio activ­i­ties to RNSS (e.g. Galileo) receivers in the 23cm band is min­i­mal. The WRC-23 prepara­to­ry stud­ies car­ried out in … Read more →