18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 1 WRC-2003 and BEYOND QCWA NATIONAL CAPITAL CHAPTER 70 Jim Dean, VE3IQ

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 2 WRC-2003 and BEYOND TWO-PART PRESENTATION: WRC-2003 AND POST-WRC TOPICS RAC ACTIVITIES POST WRC-2003

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 3 WRC-2003 TOPICS Harmonization of 7.0 MHz Band Changes to Regulations Public Protection and Disaster Relief Review of Broadcasting 4 to 10 MHz Band EESS in the 420 to 470 MHz Band Wireless LANs in 5.6 GHz Band (RLANs) RNSS in the MHz Band

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 4 WRC-2003 TOPICS Unwanted Emissions Little LEOs Possible new 135 kHz Amateur Allocation Agenda for WRC-2007(?)

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 5 BEYOND WRC-2003 TOPICS Wireless RLANs IMT Next Generation Allocations above 275 GHz Adaptive Systems Below 28 MHz Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Software Defined Radios (SDR)

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 6 BEYOND WRC-2003 TOPICS Power Line Communications (PLC) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Preparations for WRC-2007

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 7 What is a WRC All About Primarily about SPECTRUM Formal votes are rare Consensus the target Result of a WRC is a new Treaty between the Member States of the ITU

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 8 HARMONIZATION of 7 MHz BAND 7000 to 7300 kHz until 1939 Region 1 and 3, kHz Region 2, kHz Broadcasting Review MHz Who gains? Who loses? Six options –Will be very difficult to resolve

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 9 CHANGES to REGULATIONS Changes to ITU Regulations –S25 Amateur Regulations –S19 Call Signs –S1 Definitions

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 10 CHANGES to S25 REGULATIONS S25.1 Forbidden countries list S25.2 Transmissions shall be in plain language S25.3 Prohibition of International third party traffic S25.4 Except when permitted ! S25.5 Amateurs must know Morse for operation below 30 MHz

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 11 CHANGES to S25 REGULATIONS S25.6 Countries shall verify qualifications of candidates S25.7 Countries shall set maximum transmitter power

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 12 CHANGES to S19 CALL SIGNS Prefix = one or two characters, identifies responsible administration (always followed by numeral) S19.49 c) forbids combinations commencing with a digit when the second character is the letter O or I Yemen only has prefix block 7O -- no amateur call sign allowed under RR!

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 13 CHANGES to S19 CALL SIGNS Also affects other countries, e.g. Zambia (9I), Tanzania (5I), Yugoslavia (4O), even UK (2I and 2O) Solution: delete S19.49 c) Numerals not permitted in suffix Four letters not permitted, e.g. IARU

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 14 CHANGES to S19 CALL SIGNS Solution: “not more than four characters, the last of which shall be a letter” Would permit, e.g., VE1234C, VE7RCMP, VE3AB3C No confusion with call signs used in other services It will remain for individual administrations to determine whether they will adopt any or all of the changes

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 15 PUBLIC PROTECTION & DISASTER RELIEF WRC 95, WRC 97 Access to 2 Metre Band Proposed Suppressed WRC 00 - Globally Harmonized Band Common frequencies, interoperability Cross-border protocols Equipment Manufacturers Proposing

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 16 REVIEW of BROADCASTING 4-10 MHz BAND Examine Adequacy of HF Broadcasting Allocations in MHz Band Amateur, Mobile and Fixed Services Affected Wanted to include 7 MHz Harmonization IARU Resisted Standalone Agenda Item

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 17 EESS in the MHz Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems Environmental Measurements Want 6 MHz Bandwidth MHz Affects Amateur Weak Sig. & Satellite Feasible Solution Seems Possible

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 18 WIRELESS LANs GHz BAND Amateur Band is MHz Low-power, Licence-exempt Devices Interference to Amateur Service Consequences of Amateur Interference?

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 19 RNSS in the MHz BAND RNSS Band is MHz WRC-2000 gave Galileo RNSS an allocation in MHz WRC PFD limits to prevent interference to Radiolocation Amateur Satellites Uplink Band at MHz.

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 20 RNSS in the MHz Band No interference to amateur weak signal or satellite operations as far as I know

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 21 UNWANTED EMISSIONS Crowded Spectrum One Service Interferes with Another Satellites a Particular Concern Could Affect Amateurs Watching Brief

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 22 LITTLE LEOs 135 MHz to 3 GHz Threat for WRC-97 Industry Rationalization Need Changed but Threat Remains No Support for New Allocations Watching Brief

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 23 POSSIBLE NEW 135 kHz AMATEUR BAND No allocations below 1.8 MHz Considerable Interest Successful Experiments CEPT Countries have secondary allocation kHz, 1w eirp, 100 Hz BW IC Decision - Seek Allocation by ITU Problem - Not on WRC2003 Agenda

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 24 AGENDA FOR WRC Agenda is set at WRC-2003 ITU is under financial constraints Will want to minimize agenda Few amateur items foreseen Possible 135 kHz Watch Broadcasting in 4-10 MHz

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 25 BEYOND WRC-2003

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 26 RAC ACTIVITIES POST WRC-2003 Industry Canada Tower Consultation Industry Canada Spectrum Policy Review Examination Revisions ARISS RAC Youth Program Protection of Amateur VHF.UHF/SHF Allocations

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 27 RAC Activities Post WRC MHz 5 MHz Amateur Band 2.4 GHz 5 GHz 10 GHz New Technologies (PLC, SDR, UWB)

18 Feb 03Radio Amateurs of CanadaSlide 28 RAC Activities Post WRC-2003 Radio/Internet Communications Amateur Radio RLANs Commercial Wireless LANs Impacts