[AGCW] Fw: [CW] ARRL Letter says "Morse Out" at WRC-03

Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:07:40 +0200

Hallo OM

Wird es das aus f�r CW sein?
Denke schon, denn CW hat keine Lobby mehr.......sri
Also bleibt den CW-Leuten nur Aktivit�t auf den B�ndern um die CW Subb�nder
zu sichern. Aber da sieht es wohl sehr schlecht aus.
Die Zahl der aktiven CW-OP nimmt ab und die der Verbal-CWisten extrem
zu......
Ich h�re es schon : " CQ CQ CQ CQ CQ die Kochl�ffelrunde von DO9XYZ auf 3560
KHz " oder so �hnlich.
Amateurfunk ohne CW ist CB-Funk , denn kann n�mlich jeder.

73 cwfe Ron, dl5cl
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don`t talk about cw just do it

www.dl5cl.de

----- Original Message -----
From: "David J. Ring Jr - N1EA" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:27 AM
Subject: [CW] ARRL Letter says "Morse Out" at WRC-03

> ==>NO MORSE CODE CONTROVERSY AT WRC-03
>
> Whatever else happens at World Radiocommunication Conference 2003
> (WRC-03), there's no mystery about the delegates' direction regarding the
> Morse code requirement. Morse code proficiency will disappear as a treaty
> obligation for high-frequency access when the International
> Telecommunication Union (ITU)-sponsored gathering under way in Geneva
> concludes July 4.
>
> "One matter on which there appears to be no disagreement is the Morse
> requirement," said International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Secretary (and
> ARRL CEO) David Sumner, K1ZZ, in a report
> <http://www.iaru.org/rel030623.html> on the second week of activity at
> WRC-03. "It is clear that the outcome will be to leave it to
> administrations' discretion whether or not to have a Morse receiving and
> sending requirement." He said no administration participating in the
> sub-working group spoke in favor of retaining the Morse code treaty
> requirement.
>
> The modification of Article 25.5 of the international Radio Regulations
> cleared Working Group 4C on June 24. Working Group 4C is dealing with this
> and other proposals relating to Article 25. The modified text says,
> "Administrations shall determine whether or not a person seeking a license
> to operate an amateur station shall prove the ability to send and receive
> texts in Morse code signals."
>
> It's possible but unlikely that the text would be tinkered with further at
> the committee level or even in the Plenary, which considers items for
> adoption. Sumner said delegates continue to wrangle over other aspects of
> Article 25, which defines Amateur Radio operation.
>
> Adoption of the Article 25.5 modification would not mean the immediate
> disappearance of the Morse requirement to operate on the amateur bands
> below 30 MHz. Each administration, including the FCC, would then decide
> whether or not to drop the requirement from its domestic regulations. Some
> countries have indicated a desire to retain a Morse code requirement.
>
> Sub-working groups this week funneled their reports to larger working
> groups assigned to tackle various pieces of the huge WRC-03 agenda. More
> than 2600 delegates and other participants are attending the four-week
> conference. For WRC-03, the IARU has fielded its largest team of observers
> at an ITU conference in more than a decade.
>
> There's less consensus on efforts to secure a "harmonized" 300-kHz-wide
> amateur allocation at 7 MHz. Sumner said initial discussions in
> Sub-Working Group 4C1 "were spirited and reflected sharp differences of
> opinion" between those advocating realignment and those favoring no change
> out of deference to the disruption that any realignment would cause
> broadcasting services now occupying 7.1 to 7.3 MHz in Regions 1 and 3, and
> the fixed services above 7.3 MHz that would be affected by any upward
> shift in broadcasting. Amateurs in the US and the rest of Region 2 enjoy a
> 300-kHz allocation from 7.0 to 7.3 MHz, but hams in the rest of the world,
> Regions 1 and 3, have only 7.0 to 7.1 MHz.
>
> Three alternative proposals have been passed on to Working Group 4C. "The
> largest group favored realignment in two stages," Sumner explained. That
> group included the US, CEPT, CITEL and the African Telecommunications
> Union. The two steps would expand the band in Regions 1 and 3 by 100 kHz
> in 2007 and add the remaining 100 kHz in 2015. Other plans put forth
> contained longer time lines. By week's end, Sumner said, the issue could
> be passed on to Committee 4 and then to the Plenary, where items need two
> readings for ultimate WRC-03 approval.
>
> The issue of an allocation for satellite-borne synthetic aperture radars
> (SARs) in the 70-cm band (432-438 MHz) also appears well on the way to
> resolution. "While it appears very likely that there will be an
> allocation, it will be secondary," Sumner explained.
>
> Full reports on WRC-03 activities are available on the IARU Web site
> <http://www.iaru.org/news-releases.html>.
>
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>
> 73 de
>
> David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA
> http://www.qsl.net/n1ea
> http://www.qrz.com/callsign?callsign=n1ea
>
> -30-
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