WIA MEMBER MORSE SURVEY 1997
PRELIMARY ANALYSIS
With more than 1600 surveys returned, members
voted 2:1
in favour of maintaining it in the International
Radio Regulations.
Seven members expressed no opinion either way,
as was provided for on the survey form circulated with the June
issue of Amateur Radio magazine.
Detailed breakdowns on voting by licence type, and other statistics,
were not available at deadline time.
The survey's purpose was to provide an updated assessment of opinion
since the member survey on the same subject conducted more than
a year ago.
The issue is on the agenda for the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 3 Conference being held in Beijing over 8-12 September and the WIA delegation to the Conference needed an assessment to provide guidance as to the feeling of WIA members on the issue.
The matters was discussed at the IARU Region 1 meeting in Tel Aviv last year.
The retention of the Morse requirement in the Radio Regulations of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is an issue which is anticipated to be among a variety of amateur radio matters on the agenda for the ITU's World Radio Conference in 1999 (WRC-99).
The Morse issue is, however, only one of eight raised by the
IARU's
"Future of the Amateur Service Committee" (FASC).
The eight issues dealing with the International Radio Regulations
are:
definition of the amateur service,As can be appreciated from the foregoing, the issues are not simple and are interrelated. The WIA originally publicised the IARU's initiative in 1995, and the FASC's later publications in 1996, and sought comment from the Australian amateur community. The FASC's original Discussion Paper, their First Report and Second Report are available from the IARU's Web site at www.iaru.org
international communication between different countries,
international communications message content,
international communications third party traffic,
Morse code,
examination standards,
power levels and spurious emissions,
definition of the amateur-satellite service.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|