På årets WRC (World Radiocommunication Conference) har en agenda för nästa WRC (år 2019) föreslagit att satelliter som ej främst är för amatörradiobruk inte bör (ska?) använda amatörradiobandet. Info från ANS nedan:
The World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) held in Geneva during November
2015 has recommended an agenda for the next WRC, to be held in 2019, to the
Council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). One of the agenda
items is of particular interest to the small-satellite community.
Agenda item 1.7 for WRC-19 reads: “to study the spectrum needs for telemetry,
tracking and command in the space operation service for non-GSO satellites with
short duration missions, to assess the suitability of existing allocations to
the space operation service and, if necessary, to consider new allocations, in
accordance with Resolution COM6/19 (WRC-15).”
Resolution COM6/19, which eventually will be given a new number, specifies the
frequency ranges that may be considered for possible new allocations. They are
150.05-174 MHz and 400.15-420 MHz.
One of the factors that the conference considered in deciding on these
particular frequency ranges was “that some non-amateur satellites have used
frequencies for telemetry, tracking and command in the frequency bands 144-146
MHz and 435-438 MHz which are allocated to the amateur-satellite service, and
that such use is not in accordance with Nos. 1.56 and 1.57.” Those two
provisions of the ITU Radio Regulations define the amateur and amateur-
satellite services respectively.
The International Amateur Radio Union welcomed the exclusion from
consideration of all existing frequency allocations to the amateur and amateur-
satellite services. IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH, observed: “This is an
excellent result for the amateur services and clearly shows that non-amateur
satellite constructors need to consider spectrum other than the very limited
and congested segments that are available for amateur satellites at 144 MHz and
435 MHz.”
[ANS thanks IARU, ARRL, & AMSAT-UK for the above information]