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HAM RADIO IN SPACE: DEDICATED CUBESAT DOWNLINKS FOR
DISCUSSION AT WRC-18
IARU Secretary Rod Stafford, W6ROD, reports that the
International Amateur Radio Union's Administrative Council
will meet in the next 45 days to address the agenda items
for the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference. Planning
for the dedicated spectrum for university research cubesats
will begin at that gathering, but the actual allocation of
frequencies may not occur until the 2018 World
Radiocommunication Conference.
In an article posted on the ARRL web, Stafford noted, "A lot
of radio amateurs are aware of the increasing use of amateur
spectrum by small satellites, mainly by universities. It is
becoming an increasingly difficult situation to accommodate
the number of small, non-commercial satellites within the
amateur bands. These education-based satellites do not
really fit within the definition of the Amateur Radio
Service, but have been accommodated there.
According to W6ROD, these small birds are categorized as
nano-satellites weighing between 1 to 10 kilogram and pico-
satellites weighing less than 1 kilogram. The International
Telecommunications Union is trying to deal with this issue
in an orderly manner and a `preliminary' WRC-18 agenda item
is to consider whether these satellite operations can be
accommodated in an already crowded radio spectrum is being
researched.
Stafford concludes by noting that as these issues develop,
the IARU will keep its Member-Societies, such as the ARRL,
aware of developments with an eye to building the best
strategy to deal with those agenda items in a way that is
most favorable to the Amateur Radio Service.
You can read the full article, including many other IARU
agenda items at tinyurl.com/looking-at-tinysats. (ANS,
ARRL)
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