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The International Technical Consulting Committee on Radio Communication
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2017
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The International Technical Consulting Committee on Radio Communication, commonly known as the C.C.I.R. from the initial letters of the French title, had its origin in the International Radio Convention signed at Washington in 1927. The conference which drafted that convention was closely divided upon the question of setting up the new committee. Those delegations which opposed the idea of creating any committee to meet between conferences succeeded in having the text of the article providing for the committee drafted so as to limit the powers of the committee far more than the proponents of the new body desired.
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* Technical assistant, American delegation to the second meeting of the C.C.I.R., Copenhagen,1931.
1 Article 17 of the Convention and Article 33 of the General Regulations; U. S. TreatySeries No. 767.
2 See an article entitled“ The International Radiotelegraph Conference of Washington,”this Journal,Vol.XXII, p. 27 at p. 45 (Jan. 1928).>
3 It is generally understood that the international radio conferences are to be held at fiveyear intervals.
4 “ The term ‘administration’ means a Government administration. General Regulations,Art. 1. ‘
5 “ The term ‘private enterprise’ means any person, company, or corporation which operates one or more stations for radio communication.” Convention, Art. 1.684
6 The report of the American delegation to the meeting, together with an English translation of the documents resulting from the meeting, was published by the State Department as its Publication No. 105. The International Bureau of the Telegraph Union published the opinions of the committee under the title C.C.I.U.-Avis (mis par le comiti (La Haye, 1929), and the documents of the meeting under the title C.C.I.R.-—Documents de la 1r* reunion du comiti {La Haye, 1929).
7 See the reports of the various meetings of the organization committee, State Department Publication No. 105, pp. 362-399.
8 The preamble to the first opinion of the C.C.I.R. states that “ It is neither necessary nor possible, under the General Regulations, to set up permanent bodies for the study of questions on the program of meetings of the C.C.I. R.” Ibid., p. 505.
9 The Copenhagen meeting referred 14 questions to the third meeting of the committee.The United States agreed to collaborate on all of these, but will not centralize the study of any.
10 Opinions of the meeting at The Hague are numbered from 1 to 29; those of the Copenhagen meeting begin with 30 and run through 50.
11 The article uses this term as synonymous with “ private enterprise,” which is defined in Article 1 of the Convention. See footnote 5, supra.
12 As the International Telegraph Conference is to meet simultaneously with the International Radio Conference, and in many cases the same men will represent their governments at both conferences, any proposal to reduce the demands upon the time of the delegates would have a strong appeal.
13 This date was set because the final date for the filing of proposals for the Madrid Conference had been fixed at August 1st, by the International Bureau.
14 The “ program” is directed toward ascertaining the effect on the shape of the waves and on the field intensity of a number of factors, including atmospherics, ionization, direct and indirect propagation, skip distance, fading, etc.; determining the field intensity necessary for aural reception of telegraphy Type Al ; and other technical data.
15 An English translation of the procbs verbal of the closing plenary session of the Copenhagen meeting, containing the texts of the opinions adopted and the new questions proposed,may be obtained upon application to the Secretary of State. The titles of the opinions and questions indicate their character.