Confirmation of Notes of Last Meeting

The notes of the meeting on 12 September 2001 were confirmed with the captioned sentence to be deleted in para. 4.1.

In addition, OFTA have had a meeting with China at the end of last year and the arrangement was at final stage. OFTA had forwarded a proposal to CRSA for the mutual recognition of the classes of licences and was waiting for their final agreement. OFTA had the confidence that agreement would be reached very soon.

Mr. Seto said that OFTA had sent a letter to the Office Coordinator of Macau last year. However, up to now, we still received no reply. OFTA would continue to follow-up the progress after the meeting

Harmonised Amateur Radio Examination Certificates

Mr. Tse said that HARTS learnt that a new permit named as International Amateur Permit had been proposed by IARU to ITU. HARTS would like OFTA to take this into consideration for future licensing arrangement. The Chairman requested Mr. Tse to provide additional information about the arrangement to OFTA for further consideration.

Repeater Linking

The Chairman confirmed that according to the information provided by HARTS, no public service licence was required for the proposal on condition that the proposed system was solely used by licensed amateurs. Interested parties might submit their application with details of the installations. OFTA would advise the applicant if further licensing requirement is required after studying the proposal.

Mr. Tse also declared that full access control (i.e. by password) would be employed for their Internet Linking system. The users of the repeaters via the Internet Link would be confined to pre-approved licensed amateurs and the password would only be issued after HARTS has successfully verified the applicant’s status as a licensed amateur. HARTS would include these details in their application.

Mr. Cheng said that OFTA could arrange to submit a proposal to the RSAC for consideration if the amateur representatives could agree on a common proposal for frequency allocation to the amateurs above the 100 GHz band. 

There was no requirement on such frequency allocation above 100 GHz from the amateur representatives during the meeting, The Chairman said that the amateur representatives might bring up the proposal for discussion in future if the amateurs have a need to use the band above 100 GHz.

After discussion, it was agreed that 2 representatives would be nominated (one from HARTS and one from other societies). The amateur representatives should give a written application to the RSAC through the Chairman.

Arrangement on Amendment to the Frequency Schedule to the Amateur Station Licences

Any Other Business

The Chairman said that as we just received the document from Mr. Anderson of HARTS this morning, OFTA would study the document and have discussion in the next meeting.

The Chairman thanked for Mr. Beesley’s suggestion and admitted that OFTA would take it into consideration.

The Chairman confirmed that OFTA had received the document and it was now under consideration. OFTA would bring this issue back to the agenda in the next meeting.

Mr. Beesley also said that they have also experienced some deliberate jamming during the passed public events. He requested if it was possible for the RMU to keep an eye on the operating frequencies periodically while there were big public events were held.

The Chairman said that he would discuss this with RMU for the appropriate arrangement in the future.

Mr. Tse also asked about the status for the use of frequency band 430-440MHz. Mr. Cheng said that, according to the information given by the Mainland authority, the band 430 – 440 MHz is not allocated to amateur service in China although certain areas in the Mainland has special arrangements for the amateurs in this band.