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NEWS RELEASE
International Amateur Radio Union
P.O. Box 310905
Newington, CT 06131-0905
USA
30 June 2003
For immediate release: IARU Report: Week Three of WRC-03
The third week of WRC-03 had some exciting moments, but led to no final
conclusions on the key Amateur Radio issues. We may not know for certain
until sometime Thursday, 3 July, how the 7-MHz issue will turn out.
Readers should refer to the previous IARU releases dated 11, 26 and 23
June for necessary background to understand this report. They are
available on the IARU Web site at
- http://www.iaru.org/rel030611.html
- http://www.iaru.org/rel030616.html
- http://www.iaru.org/rel030623.html
Agenda item 1.23 (7 MHz realignment):Before reading what
happened during the week on our most important agenda item, it is worth
recalling that there is strong pressure for the conference to reach its
decisions by consensus. Votes are not taken except as an absolute last
resort. This gives a determined minority considerable leverage to
influence the result.
Lengthy discussions and off-line negotiations between delegates and
regional coordinators resulted in agreement among the supporters of a
300-kHz worldwide amateur allocation on a common formula to achieve that
result. This compromise called for a two-stage implementation leading in
the year 2015 to 7000-7200 kHz being exclusively amateur, worldwide, with
7200-7300 kHz shared between the amateur, fixed, and mobile services. The
final sticking point that had to be overcome was agreement on an
additional 50 kHz for broadcasting in Region 2, at 7350-7400 kHz. In
Regions 1 and 3, broadcasting would have been shifted up in frequency from
7100-7300 to 7350-7550 kHz. This was one of three options for addressing
the agenda item that was reported to Working Group 4C by Sub-Working Group
4C1 when the Sub-Working Group finished its work on Monday. The second
option was an additional 100 kHz for the amateur service shared with the
fixed and mobile services in Regions 1 and 3 with no change in Region 2,
effective far in the future (the possibility suggested was 2018). The
third option was 'no change.'
Working Group 4C was unable to resolve the differences between the
three options. On Wednesday a last-ditch effort was made by a drafting
group to merge the two options calling for change. This effort failed, and
it appeared that we were headed for a showdown in Committee 4 between the
proponents of the three options.
However, on Thursday evening the conference chairman brought together a
number of delegates and regional coordinators to try to reach agreement on
several outstanding issues, including 7 MHz. The outcome of that meeting
was a proposed compromise that was brought to Committee 4 on Friday.
Committee 4 did not have time to consider the matter on Friday, despite a
meeting that went on until 10 PM. Thus, we ended the week with no
agreement and with a final meeting of Committee 4 called for Monday
afternoon, 30 June.
The compromise proposal calls for a one-stage implementation of an
additional 100 kHz for the amateur service in Regions 1 and 3, 7100-7200
kHz, made available by an upward shift of broadcasting to 7350-7450 kHz.
In Region 2 the only change would be an additional 50 kHz for
broadcasting, 7350-7400 kHz, with no change below 7300 kHz. Thus, amateurs
in Region 2 would be relieved of the incompatibility with broadcasting in
half of the band, but the incompatibility would continue in the other
half. The effective date would be in either 2007 or 2009, but
administrations in Regions 1 and 3 would be permitted to authorize
amateurs to use 7100-7200 kHz with limited power and on a secondary basis
as of the effective date of the Final Acts of the conference (probably 1
January 2005). Additional adjustment in the allocations above 7200 kHz
could be considered at the next conference, but the 7000-7200 kHz band
would be excluded from consideration under any future agenda item.
Corridor discussions on Friday revealed that several administrations in
Region 3 were not satisfied with the compromise proposal and wanted at
least country footnotes permitting them to allocate 7100-7200 kHz on a
national basis to fixed and mobile, shared with amateur. There was also
some unhappiness over the effective date from the same part of the world.
Thus, we go toward the final meeting of Committee 4 with considerable
uncertainty as to what will happen. Of course, the arm-twisting in the
corridors is continuing unabated.
Agenda item 1.36 (HF broadcasting expansion around 4 to 10 MHz):
Final action on a resolution inviting the next WRC to consider
additional spectrum requirements for broadcasting between 4 and 10 MHz is
awaiting final action until consideration of agenda item 1.23 is
completed.
Agenda item 1.7.1 (Article 25): After lengthy negotiations, a
complete text for Article 25 was finally agreed in Committee 4 on Friday
morning. Some of the wording is the result of delicate compromises. It
will be brought to Plenary sometime in the final week of the conference.
The text as agreed requires no consequential changes to the definitions of
the amateur and amateur-satellite services, so those provisions will
remain unchanged.
Agenda item 1.7.2 (Article 19): This text has not yet made it
through second reading in Plenary, but there is no reason to believe that
any problems will arise.
Agenda item 1.38 (70 cm SARs): The 432-438 MHz secondary
allocation for satellite-borne synthetic aperture radars cleared Committee
5 in the form previously described and on Friday cleared the Plenary on
first reading.
Agenda item 1.1 (footnotes): Some footnotes that provide
exceptions to the table of frequency allocations on a national basis that
affect the amateur bands have cleared the Plenary on first reading. The
changes are relatively minor and may still be subject to change because
the chairman is permitting changes to these so-called "country footnotes"
in Plenary as long as there are no objections.
Future agenda items: Committee 7 has not yet finished its work,
but a draft agenda for the next conference -- referred to as WRC-07 but
not firm for that year -- is taking shape. Of necessity, the future
conference agenda will be among the last items of business because it is
contingent on WRC-03 decisions that are still pending.
Comings and Goings: Sergiy Bunin, UR5UN, was in Geneva for just
one week and has now returned to Kiev. IARU Region 2 Vice President Dario
Jurado, HP1DJ, also left during the week after serving on the IARU team.
Region 1 Executive Committee member Hans Blondeel Timmerman, PA7BT, is in
Geneva for the last half of the conference on behalf of his employer.
Region 1 Chairman Ole Garpestad, LA2RR, left Geneva on Saturday after
serving on the Nian delegation for the first three weeks.
Coming up: Committee 4 is scheduled to hold its final meeting on
Monday afternoon. We will then know whether agreement has been reached at
committee level on the 7-MHz realignment issue. If not, it will go to
Plenary. The second reading of all Conference decisions in Plenary is
scheduled to be completed by Thursday noon. The ceremonial signing of the
Final Acts of the Conference is scheduled for Friday afternoon, 4 July.
David Sumner, K1ZZ
Secretary, IARU
For the IARU WRC-03 Team
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