United States supports new secondary MF Amateur Radio allocations

[Pete Markavage]

Conference really is January 23-February 17, 2012, not 2010. As such, it
might be 4 to 5 years from now before we see the official change, if any.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:29:24 -0700 David Hollander <n7rk at COX.NET> writes:
> This is exciting. Hope it does happen.
> 
> ******************************
> 
> United States supports new secondary MF Amateur Radio allocations
> 
> The ARRL reports that the United States is supporting new secondary
> Amateur Radio allocation at 461-469 kHz and 471-478 kHz.
> 
> The Federal Communications Commission and the National 
> Telecommunicationsand Information Administration (NTIA) - the 
> spectrum 
> regulators for United States private sector and government users, 
> respectively - have agreed to support a secondary MF allocation to 
> the 
> Amateur Radio Service at 461-469 kHz and 471-478 kHz at the 2012 
> World 
> Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12), to be held in Geneva, 
> Switzerland from January 23-February 17, 2010.
> 
> FCC and NTIA officials formally presented the proposal at a meeting 
> of
> the Second Permanent Consultative Committee (PCC.II) of the 
> Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), held August 
> 30-September 3 in Fortaleza, Brazil.
> 
> Read the full ARRL story at
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/2a4zwry

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