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OZ3ACC and
OZ1LPR have started as new members of the EDR VHF-Committee. -
On beacons: The
cost of keeping a beacon running have gone up. Often one has to pay for a good
spot for the antennas and for the electricity. The oldest running VHF beacon in
Europe, multiband OZ7IGY has 40 MHz band added. There are plans to soon include
a 28 MHz transmitter as well. OZ7IGY operates now on bands between 40 MHz (soon
28 MHz) and 10368 MHz. -
The 70 MHz
amateur allocation may be extended in the near future. -
Activity in the
50 MHz and 70 MHz NAC contests in OZ has been decreasing. -
EDR repeater
committee has expressed that the 2MHz duplex shift is working very well on the
435 MHz band repeaters. -
EDR will
arrange a course on EMC. Such a meeting might be useful also in other Nordic
countries. SM5QA: -
SSA is planning
to send a letter to the Swedish Radiocommunications Authorities pointing out
differences in the amateur radio regulations when comparing the Swedish
regulations to other Nordic countries. For example on the band plans. Also the
power levels on the 2,4GHz band as well as an allocation on 3,4 GHz band will be
discussed. -
Next NRAU
meeting will take place in Karlsborg in October. - a meeting took place a week ago between SRAL and Ficora. OH2AUE (member of our VHF-Committee) takes part in these negotiations. A meeting is planned to take place twice each year. Items discussed included: -
green light for
experiments on 500 kHz -
for the ECA
Table of Allocations a footnote recognising that 70 MHz is an amateur radio
allocation in several European countries is planned. Once such a footnote is in
place, discussions will start on a time table to get OH operators access to the
band. -
SRAL keeps
reminding Ficora that the maximum allowed power on VHF/UHF bands has fallen
behind the power levels allowed on HF. LA8KV: -
No activity
lately in LA on 2,4GHz and Up in NAC. -
VHF section is
not participating in the negotiations with the Norwegian PTT. -
The tasks of a
new Digital Manager will include D-STAR and Echolink -
CTCSS system
for repeaters is based on the postal codes -
Once the TV
transmitters on Band I are closed down the future of the possibilities of
Norwegian amateurs to use the 50 MHz band will depend on the main users of the
lower VHF frequencies (note by OH5LK: in many countries the main user of these
frequencies, around 30 – 68 MHz, is military). - On the 1,3 GHz band there have lately been no high power lisences issued 3. APRS
Frequency for the 435 MHz Band (continued from last year's meeting) Last
year in Norway the issue of finding a more interence free replacement to the
current APRS frequency 433.800 MHz was discussed. As no concensus was found in
Norway, participants of the meeting were tasked to find a proposal for this
year's meeting. In the discussion OZ7IS pointed out that it might not be
possible to find a frequency for APRS outside the ISM band. The meeting was open
for proposals. Unfortunately no new ideas were presented. This item may come up
within the APRS Standards ah-hoc working group (see minutes on point: IARU
proposals). 4.
Contests EDR
VHF-committee decided to wait for one more year before possibly making proposals
to change the rules on 50 MHz and 70 MHz NACs in order to bring the activity up. Often
there has been a lively discussion on the contest matters. Not this time. 5. IARU
Proposals There
will be an IARU Region I Conference in Croatia in November. The proposals for
the meeting became available shortly before Sappee meeting. Only a few persons
had manage to find time to go through
the proposals before this meeting. Unfortunately there was also not enough time
to go through all the proposals in detail. Some useful remarks were made by the
participants. - It was
decided to set up a Nordic working group on the APRS standards with the aim of
creating a common Nordic proposal. Participants will be OZ3ACC, OZ1IEP, OH2MQK,
LA6IM and SM6JOC. They will discuss this matter via e-mail. Everyone else is
welcome to send in ideas. Each
Nordic country will go through the IARU proposals in their respective VHF
committees. As usual, the Nordic VHF participants to the Conference will go
through the proposals in the coming NRAU meeting. All
interested VHF minded radio amateurs are invited to read the proposals
and express their views to the national VHF Committees or VHF Managers. The
proposals can be found in many places in the net. When reading the proposals,
especially the ones by RSGB, kindly bear in mind the complexity of english
language. Sometimes it is quite difficult to understand the essence of
a proposal. There
were no proposals for the point ”Any other business” so the meeting was
closed at 18.30. |
