[CW] 40M Notes from ARRL Letter
Scott Rosenfeld [N7JI]
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Sat, 12 Jul 2003 14:37:59 -0400 (EDT)
I am personally far more excited about 40m FINALLY being partially worked
out than I am upset/anxious about the CW requirement being dropped.
Imagine not having to work Europeans on 40 with a 100 kHz split!
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Ed Tanton wrote:
> From:
>
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> The ARRL Letter
> Vol. 22, No. 27
> July 11, 2003
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>
> ==>RADIO HISTORY IS MADE AT WRC-03 WITH 7-MHZ REALIGNMENT COMPROMISE
>
> In a historic move, delegates to World Radiocommunication Conference 2003
> (WRC-03) agreed to move broadcasters out of 7100 to 7200 kHz in Regions 1
> and 3 to make room for the Amateur Service. International Amateur Radio
> Union (IARU) Secretary--and ARRL CEO--David Sumner, K1ZZ, said the
> "carefully crafted compromise" calls for broadcasters to vacate 7100 to
> 7200 kHz by March 29, 2009. Amateurs in the US and the rest of Region 2
> will continue to enjoy the 7000 to 7300 kHz band they now have, and
> eventually with greatly reduced broadcasting interference.
>
> The compromise marked the first time in the history of internationally
> coordinated radio spectrum allocation that an HF broadcasting band was
> shifted to accommodate the needs of another service. It cuts in half the
> incompatibility between amateur and broadcasting use of the 7 MHz band and
> doubles the 40-meter spectrum available to amateurs in Regions 1 and 3.
>
> While the result falls short of the IARU's goal of a 300-kHz worldwide
> exclusive band for amateurs, the cooperation of broadcasters, opposing
> delegates and many others was required to make a positive step for ham
> radio. Spectrum between 4 and 10 MHz is on the agenda for WRC-07, but the
> next conference will not consider further changes to 7000-7200 kHz.
>
> As expected, WRC-03 also dropped the international Morse code requirement
> for HF access, leaving individual countries to decide if they want to
> retain a code proficiency requirement (Switzerland already has dropped the
> requirement). In addition, the conference adopted a number of improvements
> to other international regulations for the Amateur Service. Delegates also
> agreed to allow a secondary allocation for satellite borne synthetic
> aperture radars at 70 cm and, in an Article 19 change, made amateur call
> sign assignments more flexible.
>
> Michael Owen, VK3KI, a member of the IARU team at Geneva, has provided a
> detailed explanation of Article 25 changes in the article "New Regulations
> for the Amateur Services." It's available on the IARU Web site
> <http://www.iaru.org/rel030703att3.html>.
>
> More than 2600 delegates and other participants attended the
> four-week-long conference, chaired by Dr Veena Rawat of Canada. For
> WRC-03, the IARU fielded its largest team of observers at an ITU
> conference in more than a decade. In addition to Sumner and Owen, the
> team--led by IARU President Larry Price, W4RA--included Bob Jones, VE7RWJ;
> Wojciech Nietyksza, SP5FM, and Ken Pulfer, VE3PU. More than a dozen other
> amateurs were present on national delegations or in other roles for the
> IARU, its regional organizations and member-societies.
>
> Changes to Articles 19 and 25 took effect on July 5, 2003. In general, the
> other Final Acts take effect on January 1, 2005.
>
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