[SFDXA] IARU Region 2 Publishes New Band Plan

[Kai]

That's a bad link. The actual band plan link is http://www.iaru-r2.org/band-plan/
You can see band plans for all three IARU regions there.

73
Kai, KE4PT

On 10/29/2013 2:46 PM, Bill wrote:
>
>        IARU Region 2 Publishes New Band Plan
>
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>    International Amateur Radio Union (*IARU* <http://www.iaru.org/>)
>    *Region 2* <http://www.iaru-r2.org/> (the Americas) has published a
>    revised */IARU Region 2 Band Plan
<http://www.iaru-r2.org/documents/explorer/files/Plan20bandas%20%7C%20Band-plan/R220Plan%202013.pdf>/*
>    for all allocations from 137 kHz to 250 GHz, effective September 27,
>    2013. The member-societies of IARU Region 2 adopted the new plan
>    during their triennial General Assembly in Cancun, Mexico, in late
>    September. Delegates from 18 national Amateur Radio associations
>    attended. Representing the ARRL were President Kay Craigie, N3KN, as
>    the voting delegate; First Vice President Rick Roderick, K5UR; Chief
>    Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, and Technical Relations
>    Specialist Jonathan Siverling, WB3ERA.
>    “For the first time in Region 2, band plans for the VHF, UHF, and
>    microwave bands were adopted to guide development of these bands,”
>    Sumner said. “HF band plans were reviewed with the objective of
>    improving terminology and aligning them more closely with those of
>    the other regions, particularly Region 1 (Europe, Africa, the Middle
>    East, and the former Soviet Union).” The revised document designates
>    a new segment for the Amateur-Satellite Service from *144.000 to
>    144.025 MHz*.
>    As it states in its introduction, “The IARU Region 2 has established
>    this band plan as the way to better organize the use of our bands
>    efficiently. To the extent possible, this band plan is harmonized
>    with those of the other regions. It is suggested that
>    member-societies, in coordination with the authorities, incorporate
>    it in their regulations and promote it widely with their radio
>    amateur communities.”
>    For the first time the band plan includes definitions “to organize
>    the concepts used in the band plan, as well as the proposed use of
>    spectrum for the bands between 6 meters and 1 millimeter,” says IARU
>    R2 News Editor Joaquín Solana, XE1R.
>    The new band plan references near space stations (NSS) in its
>    definitions section. According to the band plan, “Equipment located
>    in temporary Near Space Stations (such as those carried by
>    high-altitude balloons) can transmit carefully on any frequency;
>    exceptions are the segments with ‘exclusive’ usage where ‘NSS’ are
>    not applied. NSS must follow the BW [bandwidth] and mode
>    restrictions of the segment and observe carefully the usual
>    occupation of the band on the related region to avoid harmful
>    interference. For longer missions and NSS crossing international and
>    regional boundaries, extra care must be observed in harmonization of
>    different allocations.
>
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