The seventh meeting of project team 45 of the Frequency Management working group (WG FM) was held last 15-16 April in Copenhagen. As per this group's revised mandate, it is basically responsible for preparing by September 2009 three ECC recommendation or report drafts, besides tasks involving current management of CEPT Plans WI95revCO07 and MA02revCO07.
The first draft covers future prospects for digitalisation of audio broadcasting band II; the DRM+ system (or DRM120, based on the system DRM - Digital Radio Mondiale) stands out as the best-positioned candidate.
The second draft concerns revision of the technical parameters and criteria for developing DRM in the LF and MF bands, as well as the 26 MHZ band of HF and in bands I and II of VHF for local area coverage; functioning in single frequency networks (SFNs) should also be considered.
The third draft involves revision of the technical parameters and criteria for use of the L band (1452-1479.5 MHz) by terrestrial mobile multimedia systems (DVB-H and T-DMB, for example). In the context of this item elements are being studied which allow determination of the parameters needed to co-ordinate terrestrial digital audio broadcasting (T-DAB) with satellite digital audio broadcasting (S-DAB).
