Here's the status as of 9 February of the proposed 472 kHz allocation.
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2012-02-09
WRC-12: Agenda Item 1.23 Passes Committee, Moves to Plenary
Agenda Item 1.23 -- creating a 7 kilohertz-wide amateur secondary allocation
between 472-479 kHz -- is expected to get its first reading in Plenary Session
on Friday, February 10. The new allocation will not be official until it is
read a second time in Plenary, which should happen sometime next week.
On the afternoon of February 7, Committee 4 of the 2012 World
Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) approved Option 1 to satisfy Agenda Item
1.23, with minor editorial amendments to the text received from Working Group
4C. Option 1 calls for a worldwide secondary allocation to the Amateur Service
at 472-479 kHz, with a power limit of 1 W EIRP, with a provision for
administrations to permit up to 5 W EIRP for stations located more than 800 km
from certain countries that wish to protect their aeronautical radionavigation
service (non-directional beacons) from any possible interference. Option 2 was
NOC (no change to the current rules).
In keeping with the rules of the Conference, Committee decisions must be read
twice in Plenary Session; the decision of the Conference is not final until
after second reading in Plenary. According to ARRL Chief Executive Officer
David Sumner, K1ZZ, quite a few additional administrations -- mainly in the
former Soviet Union and Arab states -- will be adding their country names to
the Footnotes prior to consideration in Plenary. Sumner said that Agenda Item
1.23 should have its first reading in the Plenary on Friday, February 10, with
its second reading sometime next week.
73
Frank
W3LPL
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:02:01 -0800
>From: Tree <tree@kkn.net>
>Subject: Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The "Gentleman's Band"...
>To: topband@contesting.com
>
>On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:59 AM, chacuff <chacuff@cableone.net> wrote:
>
>> Or move to the new Topband....500Khz....
>
>Exactly. For those that missed it - there is more here:
>
>http://www.arrl.org/news/world-radiocommunication-conference-2012-begins-today-in-switzerland-will-consider-secondary-mf-amat
>
>
>Tree N6TR
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