[NLRS] Fwd: [RAC-Bulletin] WRC-19 Six-Metre Allocation in Region 1

[Jack]

Six Meter operators may be interested in this from WARC-19.

Jack, K0JP/VE3RUA



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Subject: 	[RAC-Bulletin] WRC-19 Six-Metre Allocation in Region 1
Date: 	Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:10:44 -0500
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To: 	Jack W6NF <vhfplus at gmail.com>



*For immediate release:
*

/Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN/
/RAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences/

On November 21, 2019 at the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference 
being held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, a new allocation to the Amateur 
Radio Service for Region 1 was approved. The allocation, as it will 
appear in the International Table of Frequency Allocations, will be for 
a two-megahertz secondary allocation in 50 to 52 MHz. Through footnotes 
there will be explicit references to protecting analog television 
broadcasters, wind-profiler radar systems and fixed and mobile systems 
in 50 to 54 MHz.

The following countries – Austria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, 
Finland, Hungary, Latvia, the Netherlands, the Slovak Republic, 
Slovenia, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom and the Vatican City 
State – have added their name to a footnote whereby they allocate the 
first 500 kHz of the allocation, viz., 50.0 to 50.5 MHz, on a primary basis.

The Russian Federation have identified 50.080 to 50.280 MHz for a 
secondary allocation.

A footnote acknowledges an allocation of 50 to 52 MHz on a primary basis 
in Lebanon.

The primary allocations in the existing Footnote 5.169 for 50 to 54 MHz 
to Botswana, Eswatini (Swaziland), Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, 
South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe will be continued as will the primary 
allocation in 50 to 51 MHz for Senegal.

The following countries – Angola, Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Burundi, 
Gambia, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Mauritius, Mozambique, Oman, Qatar, Saudi 
Arabia, South Sudan, Tanzania, the United Arab Emirates and Uganda – 
have added their names to a new footnote allocating a primary allocation 
in 50 to 54 MHz. In Guinea-Bissau the primary allocation is 50.0 to 50.5 
MHz and in Djibouti it is 50 to 52 MHz. All these new allocations are, 
however, subject to explicit references to protecting analog television 
broadcasters, wind-profiler radar systems and fixed and mobile systems 
in 50 to 54 MHz. For more information please see the map provided below.

If past practice is followed, the official record of these changes will 
appear early in the New Year in the Provisional Final Acts of the 
Conference and the changes would take effect on January 1, 2021.

Individual administrations, of course, will follow their own procedures 
with respect to implementing these changes in their territory. There 
should be no changes necessary to the regulations governing Canadian 
Radio Amateurs.

Although Canadian Amateurs are not directly impacted by these allocation 
changes, an expansion of six-metre operations in Region 1 benefits all 
Canadian Amateurs. For this reason and in the spirit of joining with our 
colleagues in the other Regions, Canada is proud to have participated in 
this achievement.

This outcome concludes four years of meetings and spirited discussions 
in the International Telecommunication Union’s Working Party 5A, in the 
International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 1 meetings and in the 
European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations 
(CEPT). A large number of dedicated Radio Amateurs have laboured on this 
proposal during this period and this outcome represents the best that 
can be achieved given the differing interests of the many participants. 
I would be remiss if I didn’t single out for mention Dale Hughes, 
VK1DSH, who, as in his previous work with our 5 MHz allocation in the 
2015 Conference, showed extraordinary patience and courtesy as Chairman 
of the Working Group that steered this complex document through to a 
solution acceptable to everyone.

I would also like to thank our regulator, Innovation, Science and 
Economic Development Canada (ISED) and, in particular, the Canadian 
Delegation to WRC-19 who, notwithstanding the many complex issues of 
greater import to them, extended every courtesy and assistance to me as 
this issue progressed through the Conference.

This participation by Radio Amateurs of Canada is made possible by your 
contributions to the Defence of Amateur Radio Fund (DARF). “Showing Up” 
is, as I have said frequently, necessary to the survival of Amateur 
Radio as we know it. Radio Amateurs of Canada has been one IARU member 
who has been present in these endeavours for decades and, through your 
contributions to DARF, we can continue to be counted on to show up.

*Map of Africa: courtesy of the RSGB and Murray Niman, G6JYB*

MapofAfrica_SixMetres.png

To better understand the convoluted footnotes by which certain African 
countries will have primary allocations, our colleague from the Radio 
Society of Great Britain (RSGB) has produced the following map.

Countries shown in cyan (greenish blue) on the map – for example South 
Africa, Namibia and adjacent countries – have a primary allocation in 50 
to 54 MHz through a long-standing footnote 5.169 in the Radio 
Regulations (Senegal: 50 to 51 MHz).

Countries shown in green have a 4 MHz primary allocation by virtue of a 
new footnote 5.169 bis explicitly defining protection. (Guinea-Bissau 50 
to 50.5 MHz; Djibouti 50 to 52 MHz).

Countries shown in red are explicitly identified for protection in 5.169 
bis.

Stay tuned to the RAC website and the pages of /The Canadian Amateur/ 
magazine for more information on the outcomes of WRC-19.

*Alan Griffin
RAC MarCom Director*
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