144/430 MHz bands to be used for PMR during 2024 Olympics
/France is preparing to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OLYMPIC Games) in Paris in 2024.
The National Frequency Agency is in charge of drawing up the frequency plan and allocating frequencies for the Games.
To this end, it worked with all the assignees to assess the amount of spectrum needed for the organization and global dissemination of the Games. In this context, bands not primarily devoted to PMR, PMSE audio and video uses and to score and time management have been identified, as in previous editions of the summer JOP, in order to meet the consequent need for spectral resources.
ARCEP, assignee of the band 144 – 146 MHz has thus authorized, during the JOP which will take place from 26 July to 11 August and then from 28 August to 8 September 2024, that it can be used by the official broadcaster of the Games and its service providers, among other stakeholders. The band will thus accommodate the PMR voice service (walkie-talkie) in simplex pipes of 6.25 and 12.5 kHz, up to 1 W. This use of the strip by the Paris JOP has been authorized on the sites of competitions and non-competitions, about forty sites located mainly in metropolitan France, on the Territory of the Paris region (Paris, Elancourt, Versailles, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Saint Denis, Le Bourget, La Courneuve, Clichy Sous-Bois, Villepinte, Vaires-sur-Marne), but also in the provinces of Lille, Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Marseille, Nice, Bordeaux, Châteauroux and Nantes. Events will also take place in French Polynesia at the Teahupoo site.
In addition, on these sites, the frequencies of the band 430 – 440 MHz will also be used to accommodate the PMR voice (walkie-talkie) service in simplex pipe of 6.25 and 12.5 kHz, up to 1 W.
The band 1240 – 1260 MHz, open to amateur service on a secondary basis, will accommodate PMSE Audio equipment with a power of less than or equal to 50 mW and a pipeline of less than or equal to 200 kHz.
Finally, in the bands between 2300 – 2483.5 MHz, part of which is also open to amateur service on a secondary basis, mobile video links up to 10 W for a maximum channel of 20 MHz will be deployed.
The frequencies will be made available to the Organising Committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games during the period from one month before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games to one week after the Closing Ceremony of the Paralympic Games, from 26 June to 15 September 2024. In order for them to be usable in good conditions, it seems essential to us that in the vicinity of the sites, their use by radio amateurs is moderated during this period. We rely on all members of the amateur radio community to do this.
