From: John RABSON <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: LF: Geneva and WRC-12 Agenda Items
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, 10 December, 2009, 12:11

I believe (though I can't find the reference) that someone in France made an informal enquiry - not via REF) about the equivalent of an NoV for 500.  The reply translated as "that part of the spectrum is not allocation to the amateur service".

F5VLF

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On 10/12/2009 at 03:27 M0FMT wrote:

>FYI  ??
>"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."
>73 petefmt