Pat­taya, Thai­land – The Inter­na­tion­al Ama­teur Radio Union (IARU) Region 3 par­tic­i­pat­ed in the sec­ond meet­ing of the Asia-Pacif­ic Telecom­mu­ni­ty Prepara­to­ry Group for WRC-27 (APG27‑2), held in Pat­taya, Thai­land. IARU Region 3’s active involve­ment under­scores its ongo­ing com­mit­ment to rep­re­sent­ing the inter­ests of the ama­teur radio com­mu­ni­ty in region­al and glob­al spec­trum man­age­ment forums.

Key agen­da items at APG27‑2 rel­e­vant to ama­teur radio oper­a­tions include:
• Agen­da Item 1.8
• Agen­da Item 1.13
• Agen­da Item 1.15
• Agen­da Item 1.17
• Agen­da Item 10

IARU’s in-per­son del­e­ga­tion comprised:
• Wis­nu Wid­ja­ja (YBØAZ) – Pres­i­dent, IARU Region 3
• Jakkree Han­tongkom (HS1FVL) – Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee Mem­ber, IARU Region 3

Also par­tic­i­pat­ing in sup­port of IARU were:
• Aris Bernawi (9M2IR) – Vice Pres­i­dent, IARU Region 3, rep­re­sent­ing Malaysia admin­is­tra­tion togeth­er with
• Sion Chow Q.C. (9M2CQC) – Chair­man, IARU Region 3 VHF+ Band Plan Com­mit­tee, and
• Ken Yamamo­to (JA1CJP) – Sec­re­tary, IARU Region 3, from Japan admin­is­tra­tion

Addi­tion­al­ly, Dr. Wahyu­di Has­bi YB1PRY, for­mer Chair­man of the of Direc­tors of IARU Region 3, served as Chair of Work­ing Par­ty 4 at the meet­ing, con­tribut­ing sig­nif­i­cant­ly to the coor­di­na­tion of views on spec­trum mat­ters.

The IARU Region 3 team con­tin­ues to mon­i­tor and par­tic­i­pate in dis­cus­sions as the meet­ing pro­gress­es. A full report and sum­ma­ry of out­comes will be made avail­able fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the event this weekend.