Quoting Jim White who wrote on Tue 2017-03-14 at 17:51:
In the past month I've sat as a reviewer for three university small satellite projects none of which understood this and one of which has radios they are not going to be able to use because they can't get an experimental license in that band.
I guess this happens as a result of the recent successes in cubesats, other organisations see their opportunity but start of at a lower knowledge level. But given the amounts of money still involved, one would hope research into this factor would be done before investing in hardware.
We could certainly use local AMSAT folks with satellite experience as mentors for the COMM part of most of the university driven small and cubsats.
And be aware interest in cubesats may come from outside areas of science logically connected with space technology.
I can fully imagine the geo sciences department at my employer (large Dutch university) being interested in space-based sensing.
Is there a good article somewhere describing the process you posted about? A "how-to" document, with the international view on this process. I notice the AMSAT north america site mentions the IARU when describing frequency allocations to satellites, which is a very good start.
Koos van den Hout PE4KH