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[Joe Rossmiller]

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ARLB039 IARU team on the job at WRC-03

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ARRL Bulletin 39  ARLB039
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Newington CT  June 12, 2003
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ARLB039 IARU team on the job at WRC-03

The International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) World
Radiocommunication Conference 2003 got under way June 9 at the
Geneva International Conference Center adjacent to ITU Headquarters.
More than 2600 delegates and other participants are expected to
attend the four-week conference. Dr Veena Rawat of Canada was
elected Chairman of the Conference by acclamation.

The core IARU team consists includes IARU President Larry Price,
W4RA, and IARU Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ. ARRL staff members Paul
Rinaldo, W4RI, and Jon Siverling, WB3ERA, are on the official US
delegation.
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The conference will try to complete work on more than 40 agenda
items. Three are especially important to Amateur Radio: Realignment
of 7 MHz allocations, revision of the regulations governing the
amateur and amateur-satellite services, and consideration of an
allocation for satellite-borne synthetic aperture radars (SARs) in
the 70-cm band.

Except for SARs, the critical agenda items for Amateur Radio are all
in a committee chaired by Germany's Eberhard George, DL7IH.
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