IARU:
The CEPT Conference Preparatory Group
met this week in Ankara, Turkey. Items of interest to the amateur
service which were finalised were:
- Agreement to a European Common
Proposal (ECP) on allocating 50-52 MHz to the amateur service in Region 1
on a secondary basis with a footnote listing those countries where the
amateur service will have a primary allocation in the band 50-50.5 MHz
(WRC Agenda Item 1.1)
- Agreement to an ECP on spectrum to
be considered for International Mobile Telecommunications, which does
not now include the primary amateur band at 47-47.2 GHz (WRC Agenda Item
1.13)
- Agreement to an ECP that retains the
current regulatory position in the 5725-5850 MHz frequency band which
includes secondary allocations to the amateur service and the
amateur-satellite service (WRC Agenda Item 1.16)
- Removal of 144-146 MHz from a French
proposal for study of additional spectrum for aeronautical
applications. (WRC Agenda Item 10)
Utility Planet is the official blog for the column of the same name in The Spectrum Monitor. It replaces Utility World in the discontinued Monitoring Times magazine. Utilities are all VLF/LF/MF/HF (and sometimes low-band VHF) radio communications except broadcasting, CB, and non-emergency amateur. If you understood the last sentence, you know enough to read this blog.
Saturday, September 07, 2019
Monday, September 02, 2019
Hurricane Watch Net is on 7268 LSB
20 meters has been wretched today due to a persistent geomagnetic storm. Instead of the usual daytime 14325 kHz USB, they are using 7268 kHz LSB. Signals are good into the US East Coast. One amateur relayed an emergency station setting up in Nassau, Bahamas. The message was that the weather station is destroyed, and the US consulate evacuated.
It also appears that Internet weather stations in the Bahamas are no longer operating.
It also appears that Internet weather stations in the Bahamas are no longer operating.
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