RE: [amsat-bb] SAUDISAT

[Arthur H Feller <w4art@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:27 AM 31-07-00 +0100, Chris Jackson wrote:
>Any country pretty much has the right to do what they like with frequencies.

Well, yes and no.

Signatories to the International Telecommunication Convention have agreed that:

"Administrations of the Member States shall not assign to a station any 
frequency in derogation of either the Table of Frequency Allocations ... or 
the other provisions of these Regulations, except on the express condition 
that such a station, when using such a frequency assignment, shall not 
cause harmful interference to, and shall not claim protection from harmful
interference caused by, a station operating in accordance with the 
provisions of the Constitution, the Convention and these Regulations." [RR 
S4.4]

So, the "yes" part is that administrations retain their sovereign right to 
do whatever they want.

The "no" part is that they have agreed to behave in accordance with 
relevant international agreements.  By these agreements, administrations 
agree NOT to do whatever they want if interference is caused outside their 
national borders.

[Of course, this leads to all sorts of questions about how well 
administrations control the use of radio within their borders.  But, that's 
beyond the subject covered here.]

Hope this helps.

73, art.....

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