| |
G3ZHI > IARU 03.09.00 12:50l 117 Lines 5055 Bytes #999 (999) @ WW
BID : 24155-GB7NND
Read: GUEST DK3EL
Subj: cw:rsgb president letter
Path: DB0MRW<DB0SON<DB0SIF<DB0AIS<DB0ZDF<DB0GE<F6KFT<F6KVE<F6KIF<F6PTT<
F6KDS<F6BVP<F5KCK<GB7SXE<GB7CIP<GB7DID<GB7LGS<GB7LGS<GB7GLO<GB7WAR<
GB7COV<GB7COV<GB7AYI<GB7NOT<GB7KAP<GB7NND
Sent: 000811/1828Z @:GB7NND.#23.GBR.EU #:24155 [Worksop] FBB7.00g25 $:24155-GB7
From: G3ZHI@GB7NND.#23.GBR.EU
To : ALL@WWW
To: Member Societies in Region 1 IARU
From: Don Beattie, President, Radio Society of Great Britain
July 5th 2000
Dear Colleague,
IARU Region 1 EC request for input on draft PDNR M-AOQ
You will have received a request from Region 1 Chairman PA0LOU to comment on the draft form of the Preliminary Draft New Recommendation reference M-AOQ. For those of you who were at the Lillehammer Region 1 Conference, you will recall discussion on this matter under paper 3.17, which was subsequently approved by the Conference.
When this paper was debated, a lot of time was spent discussing the relevance of mandatory Morse testing for an HF licence. In the end, Conference decided that mandatory Morse testing was not relevant for an HF licence in the future, and the content of the agreed M-XXX paper reflected this. M-XXX is now referred to as M-AOQ
Since the Region 1 Conference, you will be aware that the Administrative Council of the IARU has also voted in favour of the identical wording for M-XXX as the Lillehammer decision.
At an informal international meeting at the Friedrichshafen Ham Radio 2000 event two weeks ago, it became apparent that a document was in circulation, and had indeed been submitted to the ITU, which differed in several material respects from the papers agreed at the two Lillehammer meetings. Member Societies in Region 1 had not been given the opportunity to comment on this document until the last few days.
The RSGB has a number of concerns about the draft PDNR. In particular, the Society is very concerned that the words radio telegraphy have been added under Operating Skills. Whilst the international definition of radio telegraphy is broader than simply Morse, the RSGB believes that these words in the PDNR are capable of misinterpretation, and should be removed.
I am therefore sending you for information the formal RSGB response to the Region 1 request for input. I hope this may be of interest to you.
With best wishes,
Don Beattie, G3OZF
President, RSGB.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Radio Society of Great Britain response to IARU Region 1
request for input on PDNR M-AOQ
The RSGB is pleased to be able to comment formally on the PDNR M-AOQ, as already submitted for consideration in Working Party 8A.
The Radio Society of Great Britain notes:
a) that the Lillehammer conference voted in favour of a set of operator qualifications as follows:
Radio Regulations and Licensing Conditions
Interference
Operating skills
EMC
Safety
Theory of Electronic Circuits and Devices
Transmitters
Receivers
Antennas
Propagation
Modes of Communication
Measurement
b) that the IARU Administrative Council voted in favour of the same set of operator qualifications for M-AOQ, as recorded in AC Resolution 99-1
c) that the proposed PDNR submitted for consideration by ITU Working Party 8A, has been reworded as follows:
Radio Regulations
International
Domestic
Operating skills
radio telephony
radio telegraphy
data and image
Radio system theory
transmitters
receivers
antennas and propagation
measurements
Radio emission safety
Electromagnetic compatibility
Avoidance and resolution of radio frequency interference
This draft PDNR differs from both the AC Resolution and the Region 1 Conference decisions at Lillehammer in a number of ways, including for example:
Omitting reference to Licensing Conditions
Omitting reference to Modes of Communication
Expanding the definition of Operating Skills. The decision at the Lillehammer Region 1 Conference was not to include reference to Morse in the requirements in M-AOQ. The Conference felt strongly (by voting in favour of paper 3.17 subsequently endorsed at the final Plenary meeting) that a mandatory Morse testing requirement was not consistent with modernising the image of amateur radio. The words radio telegraphy, added under Operating Skills in the draft PDNR are, in the view of the RSGB, capable of misinterpretation.
The RSGB therefore formally asks the Executive Committee of Region 1 of the IARU and the Administrative Council of IARU to adhere to the decisions agreed at the Lillehammer Region 1 Conference and in AC Resolution 99-1 by returning to the list at (a) above.
Most particularly, the RSGB formally asks, in returning to the original Lillehammer decisions, that no further amplification be included in the Operating Skills section through inclusion of words such as radio telegraphy, which are capable of misinterpretation.
In this respect, the RSGB asks for confirmation that it is not the intention to seek, through the wording of M-AOQ, the continuation of the requirement for mandatory Morse testing for an HF amateur licence.
D F Beattie, G3OZF
President, Radio Society of Great Britain
July 5 2000
Read previous mail | Read next mail
| |
