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Radio Astronomy and the International Telecommunications Regulations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Brian Robinson
Brian Robinson*
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia

Abstract

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For forty years radio astronomers have had access to frequency bands allocated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) - initially a League of Nations body (from 1919) and then a United Nations body (since 1945). Hard work and skilful negotiation by a handful of radio astronomers since 1959 have ensured viable access to scarce spectral allocations. There have been many battles won, some key battles lost. The next treaty conference of the ITU is in the year 2000.

Type
Part 4. Threats to Radio Astronomy
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 196: Preserving the Astronomical Sky , 2001 , pp. 209 - 219
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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