{"id":35814,"date":"2019-01-31T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35814"},"modified":"2019-01-31T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:45:04","slug":"frequency-coordination-news-and-irdr-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/frequency-coordination-news-and-irdr-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequency coordination news and IRDR updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Alan Hughes, who shares this article by WRMI’s Jeff White in Radio World magazine.<\/a>\u00a0Besides covering updates in the A19 broadcast season, and Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a’s increased broadcasts, Jeff notes frequencies and updates for the International Radio for Disaster Relief initiative.<\/p>\n

For more information about the IRDR, check out the information below taken from\u00a0this page on the HFCC website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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International Radio for Disaster Relief (IRDR)
\nHumanitarian Aspects of HFCC Activities<\/h2>\n

From its infancy since 1920s shortwave radio has been associated with its potential of being a communication tool in emergencies. This use of shortwave radio is still very much present among amateur radio enthusiasts for example, who discovered its long distance properties early in the twentieth century. Amateur radio provides a means of communication on shortwaves and other frequencies “when all else fails”. This role of amateur radio is well recognised, valued and appreciated both by the public and by the world institutions managing and regulating the use of the radio spectrum.<\/p>\n

In contrast the huge technical potential of international shortwave broadcasting that operates transmitter facilities tens, or hundred times, more powerful than those of amateur radio, remains almost unused in emergencies. At the moment when local and even regional communication and information networks are needed most, they are destroyed or overloaded and the population suffers from an information blackout. Shortwave radio is capable of remaining the only source of information.<\/p>\n

Although the life-saving role of radio broadcasting is widely recognised by the public, and confirmed by surveys conducted after the recent disasters – and even acknowledged by world leaders – no concrete projects have been ever designed and no regulatory framework has been developed.<\/p>\n

That is why the HFCC – International Broadcasting Delivery in co-operation with the Arab States and Asia-Pacific broadcasting unions are working on an International Radio for Disaster Relief (IRDR) project that is based on the system of online co-ordination of frequencies managed by the HFCC in accordance with International Radio Regulations.<\/p>\n

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