For immediate release: Bryan Rawlings, VE3QNRAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences On November 21, 2019 at the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference being held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, a new allocation to the Amateur Radio Service for Region 1 was approved. The allocation, as it will appear in the International Table of Frequency Allocations, will be for […]
World Radio Conferences
Progress Report from RAC Special Advisor to WRC-19: Week 3 Sunday, November 17, 2019
WRC-19 Update: Week 3 Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN – RAC Special Advisor The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28 to November 22, 2019. Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, the RAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences, has provided the following update. We will also be including a report on the proceedings and […]
Progress Report from WRC-19
The International Amateur Radio Union’s Executive with the International Telecommunication Union’s Secretary General, Houlin Zhao, at WRC-19. From left: IARU Vice-President Ole Garpestad, LA2RR; IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH; ITU Secretary General Houlin Zhao; and IARU Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ. WRC-19 Update: Week 2 Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN – RAC Special Advisor The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) […]
IARU Overview of Week 1 of WRC-19
“Early Progress, Contention on Difficult Issues Mark First Week of WRC” International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Press Release: Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, November 1, 2019 – Week 1 of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) saw agreement reached on several issues on which discussions prior to the conference had revealed consensus. Those were the easy ones; […]
ITU World Radiocommunication Conference to “forge pathways for future digital communications”
WRC-19 to manage scarce radio-frequency spectrum for rapidly evolving terrestrial and space-based communication technologies International Telecommunications Union Press Release Sharm El-Sheikh, October 28, 2019 The World Radiocommunication Conference, the international treaty-making Conference governing the global management of scarce radio-frequency spectrum as well as geostationary-satellite and non-geostationary-satellite orbits, opened today in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The conference […]
World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is underway in Egypt
RAC Special Advisor Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, at WRC-19 World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is underway in Egypt The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is now underway in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt and is being held from October 28 to November 22, 2019. Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, the RAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences, will be […]
Radio Assembly 2019 of the International Telecommunication Union World Radio Conference 2019: October 28 to November 22
The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28 to November 22, 2019. Our delegate, Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, the RAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences, is there and will be providing reports to us. Stay tuned to this website for more information. Radiocommunication Assembly 2019 (RA-19) The Radiocommunication Assembly 2019 (RA-19) […]
IARU Administrative Council Steps Up Efforts to Combat Radio Spectrum Pollution 2019 World Amateur Radio Day Theme: “Celebrating Amateur Radio’s Contribution to Society”
The following news item is courtesy of the International Amateur Radio Union: The Administrative Council (AC) of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) held its annual in-person meeting on September 28 and 29, 2019 in Lima, Peru, just before the triennial General Assembly of IARU Region 2. The AC is responsible for the policy and […]
World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19): An Update
Countdown to WRC-19: An Update to the article in the September-October 2019 TCA The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28 to November 22, 2019. Our delegate, Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, the RAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences, regularly keeps us all up to date – through articles […]
Countdown to WRC-19: Regional Organizations Wrapping Up Preparations
The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28 to November 22, 2019. Stay tuned for additional information about the Conference in the pages of The Canadian Amateur magazine, on the RAC website and in social media using #RACatWRC19. The following news item is courtesy of the American […]