Dominican Republic Radio Hams get 5 MHz Band

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Dominican Republic Radio Hams get 5 MHz Band

The Dominica Amateur Radio Club Inc (DARCI) reports the use of the WRC-15 60-meter (5 MHz) band with an EIRP of 25 watts has finally been approved in the Dominican Republic

On 4th March 2020, the Executive Branch of the Dominican Republic, through decree 91-20, approved the update of the National Frequency Allocation Plan (PNAF), according to recommendations of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL). The Dominica Amateur Radio Club was consulted and recommended hosting the same IARU band plan.

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New QO-100 Band Plan Announced

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In time for the 1-year anniversary of the successful commissioning of the two transponders of Qatar-OSCAR 100, an encore is pending:

The capacity of the NB transponder will be expanded from about 250 KHz to almost 500 KHz.

In addition to extended areas for the various operating modes, more space is also being created in particular for "mixed mode" and other special operating cases. In addition to frequencies reserved for emergency radio operations, more experiments are to be made possible here.

But all this only with a maximum bandwidth of 2.7 kHz.

Automatic operation requires a special license from the local licensing authorities and must be coordinated with the operator beforehand; this task is performed by AMSAT-DL on behalf of QARS and Es'hailSat.

To take account of user behavior, AMSAT-DL has almost doubled the SSB range in particular.

Further details - https://amsat-dl.org/en/neuer-qo-100-bandplan/


New Draft ARRL HF Bandplans

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The HF Bandplanning committee has been looking at the HF digital mode segments and has issued a new draft bandplan

“Conflicts have surfaced about interference among digital segments of HF bandplans. The situation was referred to the HF Bandplanning Committee for consideration and recommendations to increase harmony.

The group considered a variety of positions on the issues, and developed the recommendations below. In general, the Committee agrees that the recent, extreme popularity of digital modes is likely to continue or accelerate. FT8 as a mode is the poster child for the rapid and extreme rise in popularity that is possible with the new digital modes. We expect more of this evolution in the future. Along with digital modes, there has been an increase in automatically controlled digital stations (ACDS). We believe this trend will continue as well.

In general, the committee is of the opinion that there is justification for additional space to become available for digital modes, as well as for the operation of digital stations under automatic control”
— ARRL Report Committee