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"There is opposition to this proposal, primarily from the maritime service via the International Maritime Organisation and this has led to France presenting a paper under agenda item 1.10 that suggests a use for the band 495-505 kHz using datamodes.  This was in response to papers from Canada and the UK that proposed a secondary amateur band between 493 and 510(515) kHz.  There appears to be no commercial or technical reasoning behind this paper and it is suspected to be based on emotive grounds only.  Nevertheless agenda item 1.23 still requires a lot more support if it is going to be successful."

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