Dear All, as President of AMSAT Italia I wrote a letter, in February 2011, to the italian Ministry on this issue and the result was just a letter to all the italian Radio Amateur Associations reminding them that, by virtue of the IARU Band Plan, they will avoid to transmitting by terrestrial repeaters in the band 145.800-146.00 MHz. We also asked ARI to join us in this action but we didn't receive any support. The point is that the italian Ministry, to those Radio Club asking to use the band 145.800-146.00 MHz for terrestrial repeaters, has given its agreement. I also remember that in the South Africa IARU Region 1 mtg in August 2011, there was an action given to a radio amateur (OE3MZC) that raised this issue, but I do not know what has been done so far. I hope that with the newly elected CDN of ARI, the national representative of IARU in Italy, we can define a common action towards the italian Ministry. Thanks for your attention to this problem and we accept any kind of suggestions to solve the problem. 73, Emanuele
Il 09/06/2012 13.52, Ib Christoffersen ha scritto:
Hi all, I do not remember when it started with an output frequency of 145.850 MHz. Right on the uplink of AO-27 and SO-50. It is probably more than a year ago.
Please can someone do something serious about it :-)
Yes - I know it is an other organization than the official IARU national organization that is behind it.
I just listened to a pass of AO-27 and the repeater is a solid 59 copy on the downlink. Some of the real users had great difficulty using AO-27 :-(
Have a nice weekend all,
73 OZ1MY Ib
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