In response to recent world events, the International Amateur Radio Union has issued the following statement:
“IARU is an apolitical organization focused on promoting and defending amateur radio and the amateur radio services. The amateur radio service is about self-instruction in communications and friendship between people.”
Edited by Paul Gaskell, G4MWO, the newsletter provides info on new allocations in the 60m band worldwide. The first issue of the 5 MHz Newsletter was published in autumn 2011 and heralded the growth of the new 60-metre band.
Thus, the current issue reports that the Malaysian Telecommunications Authority MCMC has now also approved a secondary 60-metre allocation based on the WRC-15 template. The local amateur radio association MARTS sporadically operates a beacon in WSPR mode on 5364.7 kHz under the callsign 9M4BQC. The authorisation is for a limited period of time. The beacon has been heard in Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Canary Islands, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hawaii, Italy, Luxembourg, Manchester, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
The latest issue of the 5 MHz Newsletter (No. 28 Autumn-Winter 2022) — the anniversary issue — is now available for free download in the ‘External Links’ section of Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60-meter_band#External_links) or on the RSGB’s 5 MHz page at http://rsgb.org/main/operating/band-plans/hf/5mhz/.
Graphics: en.wikipedia.org — by Petr Dlouhy (original), Paul Gaskell (yellow colouration) — CC0
The IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter January 2022 is now available.
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In December 2021 and January 2022, a clandestine radio station appeared on 3500 and 7000 kHz. The broadcasts were unusually in USB and could be heard throughout Europe. The radio program in Italian and English was directed against government COVID measures.
The IARUMS DARC Coordinator, Daniel Möller, DL3RTL, informed that the radio direction service unit of DARC Intruder Monitoring had been able to determine the approximate location of these transmissions, whereupon the DARC Intruder Monitoring cooperated with the German PTT (BNetzA) to have them stopped. The BNetzA was then able to work with their Italian colleagues to obtain measures that led to the stop of these transmissions.
José Francisco de Almeida, CT4AN, IARUMS Coordinator from REP (Rede dos Emissores Portugueses; Portugal), informed that ANACOM (Portuguese Communications Authority) acts to eradicate interference and the abuse of several frequencies, including deeply protecting the amateur bands. https://www.anacom.pt/render.jsp?contentId=1713864
“ANACOM, the Portuguese National Authority for Communications, carried out a series of inspections with the Maritime Police, in an area between the ports of Caminha and Peniche. The actions in question aimed at verifying the status, operability and correct use of radiocommunications equipment installed on board vessels. In these actions, the most frequently detected violations or anomalies are related to the use of frequencies not authorized or not assigned to the maritime mobile service.
In 2021 last quarter, ANACOM carried out a series of inspections with the Portuguese Maritime Police, in an area between the ports of Caminha and Peniche. The actions in question aim to verify the status, operation and correct use of radiocommunications equipment installed on board vessels. If they are not working well or being used under the right conditions, or in the appropriate spectrum bands, they may interfere with other services and may make the correct operation of emergency communications unfeasible.
The actions were carried out in the ports of Póvoa de Varzim, Vila do Conde; Viana do Castelo; Caminha; Aveiro; Leixões; on the Douro River — Cais da Alfândega (Porto) and Cais da Lixa (Gondomar); and in Peniche.
In total, 20 vessels were checked, for coastal fishing, distant fishing, hotel ships and pleasure boats.
In these joint actions with the Maritime Police, the most frequently detected violations or anomalies are related to the use of frequencies not authorized or not assigned to the maritime mobile service. In some cases, non-certified equipment or equipment not suitable for use on vessels, as well as unauthorized radiocommunication encryption devices, were detected. In these actions, ANACOM carries out inspections on the equipment, and it is up to the Maritime Police to take the necessary measures.”
In the past, ANACOM operations such as this one lead to succesful actions.
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