The
International Telecommunication Union's 2015 World Radiocommunication
Conference (WRC-15) will be held this fall in Geneva, Switzerland. Delegates
representing ITU member countries will vote on international telecommunication
policy issues during the nearly monthlong conference (Nov. 2-27).
Of primary interest
to hams are competing proposals to create a worldwide secondary amateur
allocation at 5 MHz (60 meters). The South African Radio League reported in
mid-September that Europe's ITU members had agreed to a European Common
Proposal to create a 100-kHz allocation between 5350 and 5450 kHz.
There was no
word at press time as to whether other countries or blocs of countries were
falling in line behind this proposal or sticking to others. Sixty meters in the
U.S. is available on a very limited, channelized, basis.
