> The problem is that once the bandplan is adopted, essentially a treaty, > the FCC would eventually need to modify the rules to align with it. >
Not true. You are confusing IARU with ITU. The International Telecommunications Union formulates the international treaties that determine what frequencies are to be used by hams, broadcasters, etc. These are mostly hashed out at the WARC conferences that are held every few years. They have little or no concern about the regulations or band plans internal to the amateur bands. That is strictly up to the governments of the individual countries. The IARU is the International Amateur Radio Union. It has exactly the same jurisdiction over the international amateur radio regulations as the ARRL has over the US amateur regulations: zero. It is an advisory body and nothing more. IARU is an umbrella organisation whose membership is made up of the national amateur radio organisations of the various countries. In the US, that's the ARRL. In Canada, it is Industry Canada. In France it is Réseau des Emitteurs Français. And so on. These national amateur radio organisations get together from time to time as a group to coordinate amateur radio activity worldwide so that operations in one country conflict as little as possible with those of other countries. The resulting band plans carry no force of law, and governments of individual countries are under no obligation to formulate their rules to align with the band plans. Don k4kyv _______________________________________________________________ This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
