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Encyclopedia > Regional Radiocommunications Conference

A Regional Radiocommunications Conference (RRC) is a meeting held between members of the International Telecommunications Union from one or more ITU Regions, but from the whole world. Such a meeting is normally used to put in place an agreement on use of frequencies for services such as broadcasting. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is an international organization established to standardize and regulate international radio and telecommunications. ...


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RRC-04/06

The snappily-named "RRC-04/06" is a Regional Radiocommunications Conference held in two sessions between 2004 and 2006. It will put in place a new Agreement and Frequency Plan for digital broadcasting (DVB-T and T-DAB) in Bands III, and IV & V for the whole of Region 1 (Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Russia) and Iran from Region 3. DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 270 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC... Digital audio broadcasting or DAB is a technology for broadcasting audio programming in digital form that was designed in the late 1980s. ... Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz (wavelength 10 m) to 300 MHz (wavelength 1 m). ... This article is about the radio frequency. ...


The first session of the Conference took place in May 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland. Extensive inter-sessional work is now underway, with the second session taking place from 15 May to 16 June 2006 ,also in Geneva. Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German: Genf //, Italian: Ginevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland, situated where Lake Geneva (French Lac Léman) flows into the Rhône River. ...


It is intended that the resulting Plan and Agreement will replace those drawn up in Stockholm in 1961, and Geneva in 1989.


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Regional Radiocommunication Conferences (RRC) (179 words)
Regional Radiocommunication Conferences (RRC) are conferences of either an ITU Region or a group of countries with a mandate to develop an agreement concerning a particular radiocommunication service or frequency band.
Regional Radiocommunication Conference for the revision of the Stockholm 1961 Agreement, in the frequency bands 174-230 MHz and 470-862 MHz (RRC-06-Rev.ST61)
Regional Radiocommunication Conference for the revision of the Geneva 1989 Agreement, in the frequency bands 174-230 MHz and 470-862 MHz (RRC-06-Rev.GE89)
IARUWeb: SPECTRUM REQUIREMENTS OF THE AMATEUR AND AMATEUR-SATELLITE SERVICES (6150 words)
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 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.
Region 2 amateurs retained a primary allocation in the band 7100-7300 kHz.
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