The 23cm band/RNSS story continues within the European CEPT

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Dec 30, 2024 - Spectrum - Barry, G4SJH



During the week before Christmas, CEPT project team FM44 finished their work on a draft ECC Decision to designate and harmonise the three GALILEO radio navigation satellite service bands including the E6 band 1258 to 1300 MHz. In this band the technical and operational constraints on the amateur and amateur satellite services are to be included for use by any CEPT regulators that decide to implement the Decision nationally. The technical measures are the same as those proposed in ITU‑R Recommendation M.2164 adopted at the end of 2023 just ahead of the WRC-23 https://www.iaru-r1.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/R-REC-M.2164-0-202311-IPDF-E.pdf.

The draft ECC Decision will now go forward to the parent group WG-FM to be considered at the next plenary meeting in February and that meeting may adopt the draft for Public Consultation subject to there being no objections in the two week period following the meeting. The Public Consultation will follow and proceed for at least six weeks. Any comments received will be collated and provided to the project team FM44 for consideration so that a final draft can be provided to the parent WG-FM for their meeting in mid-June. Finally it will be adopted for publication at the CEPT top level (the ECC) and this could happen at their meeting scheduled for the end of June 2025. It is common for the regulators in that meeting who expect to implement a new Decision to identify their intention to do so.

Then the relevant national procedures will follow.

IARU R1 continues to be actively engaged in the work in CEPT.