The IARU is a consultative body, a place for the amateur societies to coordinate international activities where possible , not an international treaty organization with the ability to bind member country telecommunications law. It has no real power. We use it to do amateur satellite service frequency coordination and for all countries, groups, etc. that actually follow this procedure, it is helpful. Many do not.
The ITU maybe, but not the IARU, and the ITU hosts the World Adminstrative Radio Conference where treaties and the thousands of exceptions to any agreement are added and where any real power exists. WARC==important, IARU==sometimes useful. Those would be the ones that are like a George W. Bush "signing note". They sign but then say they won't obey. Bob N4HY On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon...@gjcp.net>wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:05:22 +0200 > "i8cvs" <domenico.i8...@tin.it> wrote: > > > > Hi Kevin, KF7MYK > > > > The official Definitios given by IARU ( the International Amateur Radio > > Union) for the Amateur Service and the Amateur-Satellite Service are the > > following : > > And here you make an excellent point - there's no use trotting out the FCC > regulations, because they are irrelevant. If the FCC and ARRL want to turn > amateur radio into "all emcomm, all the time" then that's great. Don't > pollute *my* enjoyment of the hobby with that rubbish, though. > > The IARU trumps the FCC. > > -- Bob McGwier Facebook: N4HYBob ARS: N4HY _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
