IARU AC Meeting Summary
The IARU administative council meeting took place in Sun City on August 19-20 and the summary has now been released. The Amateur Satellite Service is mentioned in several places.
Among them is the expansion of the 70cm CubeSat segment:
"6.3. Owing to his presence in Sun City for the regional conference, IARU Satellite Adviser Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV, presented his report in person and supplemented his report with oral remarks. He mentioned that educational institutional satellites using amateur radio frequencies were increasing. The Satellite Advisory Panel has expanded the CubeSat band from 437.305 – 437.505 MHz by 100 kHz to 437.605 while taking into account certain ARISS preferred slots. He mentioned the opportunity to convert the CubeSats to amateur usage upon completion of the educational institutional experimental usage and in this way anticipated more satellite availability for the amateur-satellite service."
Read the 2011 IARU Administrative Council Summary Record at http://www.iaru.org/2011ACSummaryRecord.pdf
Notes of the IARU Region 1 C5 committee meeting that took place August 14-16 have been published in the VHF-UHF-MW newsletter Editon 58. The Amateur Satellite Service is mentioned, see http://www.oevsv.at/export/oevsv/download/UKW/Newsletter_58.pdf
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Hi Trevor,
Thanks for the links...the Administrative Council Minutes have some particularly interesting items for us. It is good to see that a 50MHz worldwide satellite service allocation (hopefully for up and downlinks) is now top of their list of priorities and satellites are also be recognised in next year's World Amateur Radio Day
73
Graham G3VZV
7.1.4. The Administrative Council reviewed the priorities and strategy regarding future WRC agenda items related to amateur radio. The following priorities were established: a harmonized allocation including amateur-satellite at 50 MHz, a wider harmonized allocation at 160 meters, expansion of the 10 MHz amateur allocation and a worldwide, secondary allocation of approximately 150 kHz at 5 MHz.
10.6. In light of the anniversary of the launch of OSCAR 1 in December, 1961 and the launch of OSCAR 2 in June, 1962, the Administrative Council selected the phrase, “Amateur Radio Satellites: Celebrating 50 Years in Space” as the theme for World Amateur Radio Day, 18 April 2012.
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