[LeArc] Amateur Radio Operators Gain New LF Band

[Jesse Risley]

Amateur Radio Operators Gain New LF Band

At the now concluded World Radio communications Conference in Geneva,
Switzerland; a worldwide secondary allocation of 135.7-137.8 kHz was
approved. This marks the first time since allocations to radio services
began that the amateur service has had an allocation below the medium-wave
broadcasting band. The effective date is not yet set, and, in any case,
Amateur Radio operators must wait until their own administrations authorize
the new allocation before they can use it.

At the time of writing, hopes of an allocation near 5 MHz had faded.

Future World Radio communications Conferences are tentatively scheduled for
2011 and 2015. One tentative agenda item for 2011 is a secondary allocation
of about 15 kHz around 500 kHz. Not on the schedule is any more talk about a
new 5 MHz Amateur Radio band.


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