Interview at WRC-12 with Ole Garpestad, Vice-President, The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). Subjects covered include ITU-R Sector Member IARU’s interest in agenda item 1.23 at WRC-12 and an insight into the world of amateur radio. Video by ITU HQ / Geneva
It’s official — delegates attending the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) have approved a new 7-kilohertz-wide secondary allocation between 472-479 kHz for the Amateur Radio Service. Agenda Item 1.23 had both its first and second readings in Plenary Session on Tuesday, February 14; to become part of the ITU’s Radio Regulations, each Agenda Item must…
Professor Joe Taylor, amateur radio operator K1JT and 1993 Nobel laureate in physics, briefly addresses a plenary session of the 2012 ITU World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 3, 2012. Afterward, he is awarded the ITU’s Gold Medal by Dr. Hamadoun Tour?, HB9EHT, Secretary-General of the ITU. On Friday, February 3, delegates and…
Station personnel at 4U1ITU — the Amateur Radio station at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland — have installed a webcam in the station, allowing anyone with an Internet connection to view live happenings at the station. 4U1ITU will be signing as 4U1WRC during the 2012 World Radio Communication Conference (WRC-12), which runs…
If you have been on the HF bands lately, you may have noticed that a number of new prefixes are in use by stations in the Russian Federation. Here is a summary of the changes recently adopted by the Russian telecommunication authorities. * Russian prefixes with the numeral 2 are no longer limited to Kaliningradsk.…