[AMSAT-UK] IARU Region 1 Approve Youth Budget and Satellite Allocation
 

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IARU Region 1 Approve Youth Budget and Satellite Allocation

Posted: 03 Nov 2014 02:53 PM PST
http://amsat-uk.org/2014/11/03/iaru-...te-allocation/

Lisa Leenders PA2LS

The minutes of the Final Plenary, 23rd IARU Region 1 General Conference
have been released.

The Conference approved these Youth budgets:

a. Youth Projects 25,000 Swiss Francs for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017

b. Youth Working Group – 2,000 Swiss Francs for the years 2015, 2016 and
2017

One Swiss Franc is roughly equivalent to £0.65, $1.04, €0.83.

It was agreed to set up a Youth Working Group which will be Chaired for
three years by Lisa Leenders, PA2LS.

A new satellite Space-to-Earth (downlink) band from 144.000 – 144.025 MHz
with a maximum signal bandwidth of 2.7 kHz was agreed. This allocation is
now available in all three IARU regions.

Read the minutes at

http://rsgb.org/main/files/2013/05/V...ry-minutes.pdf

Additional information is in annexes/minutes which are awaiting release,
check

http://rsgb.org/main/about-us/commit...r1-conference/