Countries on 136kHz.

Information from IARU (2006) and others

Region 1

Country

Implementation according to ERO

Implementation according to other sources

Albania

No info

Andorra

No info

URA: yes

Austria

Yes

Frequenznutzungsplan and Amateurfunkgesetzes

Azerbaijan

Belarus

BFRR: yes 1 Watt ERP

Belgium

No info

National Allocation Table

Bosnia & Herzegovina

No info

Not in National Allocation Table

Bulgaria

Yes

National Frequency Plan. National Footnote 71

Croatia

Planned www.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeno/2003/3165.htm

Cyprus

No info

CARS: yes

Czech Republic

Yes

National Allocation Table National Footnote CZ3

Denmark

No info

National Frequency Plan

Estonia

Yes

National Radio Frequency Allocation Plan

Finland

Yes

National Frequency Plan

France

No info

National Allocation Table Footnote F002a

FY Rep of Macedonia

Germany

No info

Frequenzbereichszuweisungsplan. Footnote 3

Greece

No info

www.raag.org/licensing_en.html

Hungary

Yes

National Allocation Table National Footnote H10

Iceland

Yes

National Table of Frequency Allocations

Ireland

No info

Not in National Allocation Table. Special permits reported

Italy

Yes

National Allocation Table National Footnote 8

Latvia

Special permits reported

Liechtenstein

National Allocation Table

Lithuania

Yes

National Radio Frequency Allocation Table

Luxemburg

Plan d'allocation, d'attribution et d'assignation des fréquences

Malta

Allocated from January 2009

Moldova

ARM: no

Monaco

ARM: yes

Netherlands

Yes

Nationaal Frequentie Plan

Norway

Yes

National Allocation Table

Poland

National Allocation Table National Footnote POL.1

Portugal

Planned

Under consideration due to a revision of National Legislations

Romania

FRR: no

Russian Federation

They have 136kHz

San Marino

Serbia & Montenegro

Not in National Allocation Table

Slovak Republic

National Table of Frequency Allocations

Slovenia

ATRP: Table of Amateur Bands

Spain

Yes

Cuadro Nacional de Atribución de Frecuencias. National Footnote UN-108

Sweden

No info

PTSFS 2001:4

Switzerland

No info

National Frequency Allocation Plan

Turkey

No

Not in National Allocation Table

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Yes

National Allocation Table National Footnote UK7

Vatican City

No info

Situation in Region 2

Argentina, Canada and the United States have issued experimental licenses in the band 135.7–137.8 kHz.

Some administrations issue experimental licenses to amateurs or otherwise permit LF low-power operation; for example, in 160–190 kHz in the USA.

In a spectrum study, the USA administration approved, in principle, an ARRL requirement for a shared allocation in the vicinity of 160–190 kHz. Subsequently, the ARRL petitioned the FCC for secondary allocations in the bands 135.7–137.8 kHz and 160–190 kHz. In 2002, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making requesting public comment on a proposal to allocate the band 135.7–137.8 kHz to the amateur service while not proposing allocation of the band 160–190 kHz. In 2003, the FCC issued a Report and Order on several spectrum allocations for the Amateur Services but declined to allocate the band 135.7-137.8 kHz. There was substantial opposition to an amateur LF allocation from power companies which alleged that amateur transmissions would cause harmful interference to power-line carrier systems operating in that frequency range. However, the FCC did offer the possibility of authorising a number of experimental licenses.

Domestically in the USA, studies continue on compatibility of the Amateur Service with power-line carrier communications in the band 135.7-137.8 kHz including testing on an experimental license basis.

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.

In CITEL, Canada introduced an Inter-American Proposal to WRC-03 for a similar allocation by footnote in Region 2. Instead, WRC-03 decided to establish agenda item 1.15 for WRC-07, which reads:

1.15 to consider a secondary allocation to the amateur service in the frequency band 135.7-137.8 kHz.

Situation in Region 3

Australia and New Zealand have issued experimental licenses in the band 135.7–137.8 kHz.

Some administrations issue experimental licenses to amateurs or otherwise permit LF low-power operation; for example, in 165–190 kHz in Australia. In New Zealand in 1990, after negotiations by NZART, the band 165–190 kHz became available to radio amateurs with a special permit. In 2001 the permit requirement was removed and the band is now listed as an amateur band.

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 3 (Taipei, 2004) updated this recommendation, referring to “in the vicinity of 180 kHz” instead of 165-190 kHz.

Last update: 12:31 27/11/2009

Licence conditions of countries with 136k allocations.

From Lawrence Galea 9H1AV / 9H9MHR.

Andorra

http://www.ura.ad/Cat/Legisla.htm

Argentina

There was a reference in RCA webpage to secondary allocation on 136 khz, but it is no longer there.

Present regulations from http://www.lu4aa.org/reglamentacion/

Austria

Click Here (PDF)

Belgium

http://www.bipt.be/bipt_E.htm

Bulgaria link (see note 71)

http://www.crc.bg/v1/files/en/647.pdf

Also BFRA Home page at

http://www.bfra.org/pages/index.shtml

and amateur allocations bandplan at

http://www.bfra.org/pages/bandplan.shtml

Croatia (see reference to ERC/REC 62-01 last column)

http://195.29.219.242/dokumenti/namjena.htm

Also National Society Page at

Click Here

Cyprus

They have 136.

Click Here

Cyprus Latest Bandplan from Department of Electronic Communications

Click Here

Czech Republic (National Society main page)

http://www.crk.cz/ENG/MAINPAGEENG.HTM

Regulations page

http://www.crk.cz/ENG/156_2005E.HTM

Denmark They have 136 kHz + 70Mhz

Click Here

Estonia 136 kHz

Click Here (Excel Spreadsheet)

Finland

http://www.ficora.fi/englanti/radio/Taulukko1.htm

Radio Amateur Allocations

Click Here (PDF)

France

Main page http://www.ref-union.org/

Bandplan

http://hf.ref-union.org/planhf/060108plan_hf.pdf

From Agence National des Frequence

http://www.anfr.fr/pages/tnrbf/tableau_derive_150105.html

Germany

http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/media/archive/1820.pdf

Greek bandplan from Radio Association of Greece 136 kHz + 70 Mhz

http://www.raag.org/licensing_en.html

New allocations

http://www.raag.org/files/greekbandplan.pdf

Gibraltar 136 kHz + 70 Mhz (Annex A re amateur allocations. Annex C refers to ERC/REC 62-01 and other ERC documents circulated for comments, so maybe 136 kHz is in the pipeline. Presently not allocated for amateur use)

First page http://www.gra.gi/home.html and click Communications link then Spectrum Use link. Whole Bandplan can be downloaded from

http://www.gra.gi/Communications/gfat_03.htm

Following links to relevant documents.

http://www.gra.gi/Communications/docs/Annex_A.pdf

http://www.gra.gi/Communications/docs/Annex_C.pdf

Hungary

136 khz may be assigned on a secondary basis.

http://www.hif.hu/dokumentum.php?cid=10586&letolt

National footnotes (see reference 11 re 136 kHz)

http://www.hif.hu/dokumentum.php?cid=10589

Iceland

http://www.pta.is/upload/files/KHZ-mai.pdf

Ireland

http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0477.pdf

Italy (lists radio amateur allocation, refers to ERC 62-01)

http://www.comunicazioni.it/it/index.php?IdPag=349

Liechtenstein

http://www.llv.li/pdf-llv-ak-frequenzzuweisungsplan010105

Lithuania

http://www.rrt.lt/index.php?1497801894

Montenegro

Click Here (PDF)

Luxembourg

http://www.rrt.lt/index.php?1497801894

Netherlands

http://www.at-ez.nl/nfr/index_uk.html

Norway (A hell of a long link)

Click here

Poland (in Notes Pol.1)

Click Here

Portugal

Click Here

Romania

Click here

Russian Federation

Click here

and here

and here

Slovak republic

Click Here

Slovenia (radio amateurs also have an allocation on 40.66 – 40.7 Mhz for beacons and also 70 Mhz)

http://www.apek.si/cache/bin?bin.svc=obj&bin.id=701

Somalia (Every band you can imagine, at 3kW!)

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/io/Somalia.pdf

South Africa (No 136 kHz, but 40.675 – 40 .685 Mhz, 70 – 70.3 Mhz)

http://www.sarl.org.za/public/icasa/1-27258-4-2.pdf

Spain from National Society Webpage (follow link legislacion

http://www.ure.es/

Sweden

Click Here (PDF)

Switzerland

Click Here