Situation in Region 2
Argentina, Canada and the United States have issued experimental
licenses in the band 135.7137.8 kHz.
Some administrations issue experimental licenses to amateurs or
otherwise permit LF low-power operation; for example, in 160190 kHz in
the USA.
In a spectrum study, the USA administration approved, in
principle, an ARRL requirement for a shared allocation in the vicinity of
160190 kHz. Subsequently, the ARRL petitioned the FCC for secondary
allocations in the bands 135.7137.8 kHz and 160190 kHz. In 2002,
the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making requesting public comment on a
proposal to allocate the band 135.7137.8 kHz to the amateur service while
not proposing allocation of the band 160190 kHz. In 2003, the FCC issued
a Report and Order on several spectrum allocations for the Amateur Services but
declined to allocate the band 135.7-137.8 kHz. There was substantial opposition
to an amateur LF allocation from power companies which alleged that amateur
transmissions would cause harmful interference to power-line carrier systems
operating in that frequency range. However, the FCC did offer the possibility
of authorising a number of experimental licenses.
Domestically in the USA, studies continue on compatibility of
the Amateur Service with power-line carrier communications in the band
135.7-137.8 kHz including testing on an experimental license basis.
Region 2 (Guatemala City, 2001) urged its member-societies to
support a coordinated approach to secondary allocations to the Amateur Service
in the bands 135.7-137.8 kHz and 160-190 kHz.
In CITEL, Canada introduced an Inter-American Proposal to WRC-03
for a similar allocation by footnote in Region 2. Instead, WRC-03 decided to
establish agenda item 1.15 for WRC-07, which reads:
1.15 to consider a secondary allocation to the amateur service
in the frequency band 135.7-137.8 kHz.
Situation in Region 3
Australia and New Zealand have issued experimental licenses in
the band 135.7137.8 kHz.
Some administrations issue experimental licenses to amateurs or
otherwise permit LF low-power operation; for example, in 165190 kHz in
Australia. In New Zealand in 1990, after negotiations by NZART, the band
165190 kHz became available to radio amateurs with a special permit. In
2001 the permit requirement was removed and the band is now listed as an
amateur band.
Region 3 (Darwin, 2000) recommended that an LF band segment of
15 kHz between 165 and 190 kHz and/or 135.7-137.8 kHz be sought through local
administrations throughout Region 3 noting the international communications
experiments that have taken and could take place. Region 3 (Taipei, 2004)
updated this recommendation, referring to in the vicinity of 180
kHz instead of 165-190 kHz.
Last update: 12:31 27/11/2009
Licence conditions of countries with 136k
allocations.
From Lawrence Galea 9H1AV /
9H9MHR.
Andorra
http://www.ura.ad/Cat/Legisla.htm
Argentina
There was a
reference in RCA webpage to secondary allocation on 136 khz, but it is no
longer there.
Present
regulations from http://www.lu4aa.org/reglamentacion/
Austria
Click
Here (PDF)
Belgium
http://www.bipt.be/bipt_E.htm
Bulgaria link (see note 71)
http://www.crc.bg/v1/files/en/647.pdf
Also
BFRA Home page at
http://www.bfra.org/pages/index.shtml
and
amateur allocations bandplan at
http://www.bfra.org/pages/bandplan.shtml
Croatia (see reference to ERC/REC 62-01 last
column)
http://195.29.219.242/dokumenti/namjena.htm
Also National
Society Page at
Click
Here
Cyprus
They have 136.
Click
Here
Cyprus
Latest Bandplan from Department of Electronic Communications
Click
Here
Czech
Republic (National Society main
page)
http://www.crk.cz/ENG/MAINPAGEENG.HTM
Regulations
page
http://www.crk.cz/ENG/156_2005E.HTM
Denmark
They have 136 kHz + 70Mhz
Click
Here
Estonia
136 kHz
Click
Here (Excel Spreadsheet)
Finland
http://www.ficora.fi/englanti/radio/Taulukko1.htm
Radio Amateur
Allocations
Click
Here (PDF)
France
Main
page http://www.ref-union.org/
Bandplan
http://hf.ref-union.org/planhf/060108plan_hf.pdf
From Agence
National des Frequence
http://www.anfr.fr/pages/tnrbf/tableau_derive_150105.html
Germany
http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/media/archive/1820.pdf
Greek
bandplan from Radio Association of Greece 136 kHz + 70 Mhz
http://www.raag.org/licensing_en.html
New
allocations
http://www.raag.org/files/greekbandplan.pdf
Gibraltar 136 kHz + 70 Mhz (Annex A re amateur
allocations. Annex C refers to ERC/REC 62-01 and other ERC documents circulated
for comments, so maybe 136 kHz is in the pipeline. Presently not allocated for
amateur use)
First page http://www.gra.gi/home.html and click
Communications link then Spectrum Use link. Whole Bandplan can be downloaded
from
http://www.gra.gi/Communications/gfat_03.htm
Following links to relevant documents.
http://www.gra.gi/Communications/docs/Annex_A.pdf
http://www.gra.gi/Communications/docs/Annex_C.pdf
Hungary
136 khz may be
assigned on a secondary basis.
http://www.hif.hu/dokumentum.php?cid=10586&letolt
National
footnotes (see reference 11 re 136 kHz)
http://www.hif.hu/dokumentum.php?cid=10589
Iceland
http://www.pta.is/upload/files/KHZ-mai.pdf
Ireland
http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0477.pdf
Italy
(lists radio amateur allocation, refers to ERC 62-01)
http://www.comunicazioni.it/it/index.php?IdPag=349
Liechtenstein
http://www.llv.li/pdf-llv-ak-frequenzzuweisungsplan010105
Lithuania
http://www.rrt.lt/index.php?1497801894
Montenegro
Click
Here (PDF)
Luxembourg
http://www.rrt.lt/index.php?1497801894
Netherlands
http://www.at-ez.nl/nfr/index_uk.html
Norway (A
hell of a long link)
Click here
Poland (in
Notes Pol.1)
Click
Here
Portugal
Click
Here
Romania
Click
here
Russian
Federation
Click
here
and
here
and
here
Slovak
republic
Click
Here
Slovenia
(radio amateurs also have an allocation on 40.66 40.7 Mhz for beacons
and also 70 Mhz)
http://www.apek.si/cache/bin?bin.svc=obj&bin.id=701
Somalia
(Every band you can imagine, at 3kW!)
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/io/Somalia.pdf
South
Africa (No 136 kHz, but 40.675
40 .685 Mhz, 70 70.3 Mhz)
http://www.sarl.org.za/public/icasa/1-27258-4-2.pdf
Spain from
National Society Webpage (follow link legislacion
http://www.ure.es/
Sweden
Click
Here (PDF)
Switzerland
Click
Here