1900-2000 kHz to become Primary Ham Band

In the USA, 1900-2000 kHz is to become a primary amateur / ham radio band allocation on 6 August 2015 

The change will promote the section of the band from secondary use to primary for the 1900-2000 kHz segment of 160 meters in the US. 

The FCC also made a secondary allocation of 135.7-137.8 kHz to the Amateur Service, but this band will not be available until service rules have been adopted.

Full ARRL Story - 
http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-becomes-primary-on-1900-2000-khz-on-august-6

WIA Drafting 2-metre and 70-centimetre Band Plans

After a wide consultation process on the draft 2-metre and 70-centimetre band plans, the WIA are considering many of the useful ideas and comments suggested.

The WIA board are planning their next meeting, where they intends to do a final review and approve the new band plans

Earlier this year all other band plans were reviewed. The final band plans

will be put on the WIA website and published in the 2016 Australian Callbook.

Swedish 160m Proposal

In a consultation on licence exempt regulations, the Swedish amateur radio regulator, PTS, has proposed increasing the power in 1900-1950 kHz from 10 to 100 watts

Currently 1 kW is permitted in 1810-1850 kHz and 10 watts in the rest of the band. The Swedish national society, the SSA, says it wants the PTS, when possible, to considering further increase of the allowed power to 1 kW in the whole band 1810-2000 kHz, alternatively an increase to 100 W in the sub-band 1850-2000 kHz.

The proposed changes in the licence exempt regulations cover call signs for training and demonstration, and the use of automatic amateur radio by those who do not have amateur radio licence.

Read the SSA story - http://tinyurl.com/PTS-2015-160m

Amateur radio was made licence exempt in Sweden in 2004 - https://www.pts.se/upload/Documents/EN/Radio_amateurs.pdf

SSA in Google English - http://tinyurl.com/SwedenSSA