LF: Re: WRC-12 Approves the New 472-479 kHz Amateur Radio Allocation

["James Moritz" <james.moritz@btopenworld.com>]

Dear Mal, LF group,

> I just had a listen and you are correct in fact I doubt if there is enough
> space for any radio amateur to communicate without interference from such
> beacons.
So which beacons can you hear? On what frequencies?

Remember it is the beacons who will be the primary band users when the 
475kHz band comes into being, so the primary concern will be us amateurs not 
interfering with them, rather than the other way round.
> Next question who was the person or persons that recommended this part of
> the MF spectrum for radio amateur use ??
It is more a matter of amateurs struggling to gain access to any part of 
this frequency range - remember, these frequencies have been fully occupied 
for nearly a century now. The incumbents are tenaciously defending their 
spectrum "territory" even if they are not really using it for anything. 
Getting allocated any segment of spectrum is a triumph that required a lot 
of hard work by many national amateur societies on behalf of their members.
Cheers, Jim Moritz
73 de M0BMU