FCC to Publish Changes to Frequency Allocations Tied to 2012 WRC
The FCC is set to publish Wednesday frequency allocation changes from the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2012 (WRC-12) and updates to its service rules. “The Commission took this action to conform its rules, to the extent practical, to the decisions…
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that the international community made at WRC-12,” the FCC says in the Federal Register. Most changes take effect 30 days after publication, while a few are on hold pending Office of Management and Budget review. Among the changes, adopted in 2015 (see 1504270070), the FCC revised its table of frequency allocations to assign the 135.7-137.8 kHz band to the amateur service on a secondary basis, amended Part 80 rules to authorize radio buoy operations in the 1900-2000 kHz band under a ship station license and allocated eight frequency bands in the 4 to 44 MHz range to the radiolocation service for federal and nonfederal use, limited to oceanographic radars.