IARU Region 1 VHF Managers Handbook - UBA

7.1
 Minimum Requirement for a valid QSO (Vienna 2007).................................................................................99
7.2
 Weak-signal QSO procedure ........................................................................................................................99
7.3
 OPERATING CODE OF PRACTICE FOR 50 MHz OPERATORS.............................................................100
7.4
 OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR METEOR SCATTER QSO'S (Davos 2005).......................................102
7.4.1
 Introduction............................................................................................................................................102
7.4.2
 Scheduled and Random Contacts.........................................................................................................102
7.4.3
 Timing....................................................................................................................................................102
7.4.4
 TRANSMIT PERIODS...........................................................................................................................103
7.4.5
 QSO DURATION...................................................................................................................................103
7.4.6
 FREQUENCIES ....................................................................................................................................103
7.4.7
 QSY FREQUENCIES FOR MGM .........................................................................................................103
7.4.8
 QSO PROCEDURE ..............................................................................................................................104
7.4.9
 VALID CONTACTS ...............................................................................................................................105
7.4.10
 DOCUMENT HISTORY:......................................................................................................................105
7.5
 DEFINITION FOR PING AND BURST FOR SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF AMATEUR RADIO METEOR
SCATTER..............................................................................................................................................................106
7.6
 QSO Procedure for Airplane Reflections ....................................................................................................108
7.7
 AMATEUR-SATELLITE OPERATING PRACTICE.....................................................................................109
7.8
 PACKET-RADIO (MAILBOX) OPERATING PRACTICE ............................................................................111
7.9
 Definition of a complete contact (deleted)...................................................................................................111
7.10
 CONCERNING THE RELAYING OF MESSAGES TO AMATEUR STATIONS .......................................111
7.11
 CONCERNING GUIDELINES FOR PACKET RADIO ..............................................................................112
7.11.1
 Guidelines for Packet Radio Operators ...............................................................................................112
7.11.2
 Guidelines for Packet Radio Bulletin Board Operators........................................................................113
7.11.3
 CONCERNING GUIDELINES FOR APRS..........................................................................................113
8
 TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATIONS OF IARU REGION 1 .........................................................................114
8.1
 An introduction ............................................................................................................................................114
8.2
 FREQUENCY MODULATED TELEPHONY ...............................................................................................114
8.2.1
 The basic FM standard (Recommendation FM.1.)................................................................................114
8.2.2
 FM Repeaters ( Recommendation FM.2.).............................................................................................115
8.3
 DIGITAL TRANSMISSION..........................................................................................................................115
8.3.1
 Data-transmission ( Recommendations D.1.1. and D.1.2.) - removed..................................................115
8.3.2
 Digital telephony ( Recommendation D.2.) (removed DAVOS 2005)....................................................115
8.4
 AMATEUR ( wide band ) TELEVISION ......................................................................................................115
8.4.1
 Vestigial Sideband AM ( Recommendation V.1.1.) ...............................................................................115
8.4.2
 Medium bandwidth ATV ( Recommendation V.1.2.) .............................................................................116
8.4.3
 FM-ATV (Recommendation V.2. ) .........................................................................................................116
8.5
 FACSIMILE (Recommendation V.3 )..........................................................................................................116
8.6
 REPORTING...............................................................................................................................................117
8.6.1
 SIGNAL REPORTING ( Recommendation R.1; R.2) ............................................................................117
8.6.2
 The RSQ (Readability Strength Quality) reporting scale for digital modes: ..........................................117
8.6.3
 The MOS (Mean Opinion Score) reporting scale for digitized speech: .................................................118
8.7
 ANTENNA POLARISATION ( Recommendation P.1.) ...............................................................................118
8.8
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendations.............................................................................................119
8.8.1
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendation B.1. .................................................................................119
8.8.2
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendation D.1.1 ...............................................................................119
8.8.3
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendation D.1.2 ...............................................................................120
8.8.4
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendation D.2 (deleted DAVOS 2005) ............................................121
8.8.5
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendation FM.1................................................................................121
8.8.6
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommemdation FM.2...............................................................................122
8.8.7
 IARU region 1 Technical Recommendation P.1....................................................................................125
8.8.8
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendation R.1 ..................................................................................126
8.8.9
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendation R.2 ..................................................................................127
8.8.10
 IARU REGION 1 TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATION V.1.1 ...............................................................128
8.8.11
 IARU REGION 1 TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATION V.1.2 ...............................................................129
8.8.12
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendation V.2.................................................................................130
8.8.13
 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendation V.3.................................................................................131
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