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WIA Band Plan Consultation Concluded - Outcomes and Revised Band Plans published
Date : 01 / 03 / 2026
Author : Grant Willis VK5GR
WIA Technical Advisory Committee News – Friday February 27th 2026
WIA Band Plan Consultation Concluded - Outcomes and Revised Band Plans published
The WIA TAC Committee is pleased to announce that we have completed the work considering the feedback received on the
Australian Amateur Band Plan consultation conducted during November and December 2025.
We were very pleased to receive over 40 submissions from the amateur radio community commenting on almost all aspects
of the proposed changes to the Amateur Radio band plans in Australia.
As a result of that feedback, further revisions were made to a number of bands, including:
- 6m (SSB segment widened),
- 80m and 160m AM Centres of Activity chosen (1870kHz and 3686 kHz),
- 40m Emergency Communications Channel revised to align with IARU Region 3 (7110 kHz)
-as well as changes to the final proposal for 23cm, which was able to consider some late input from IARU Region 1.
We also clarified Amateur Television allocations, making it clear how FM Analogue ATV still fit within the band plans
from 23cm to 3 cm and revamped further the 9cm band plan taking into account feedback received.
The rest of the changes followed the original proposals which were supported based on the feedback received.
Full step by step details of the outcomes for each of the proposed changes can now be seen in the
“WIA Band Plan Consultation 2025 – Outcomes” information paper published by the WIA TAC Committee.
This paper is available on our consultations webpage here: Link
https://www.wia.org.au/members/tac/consultation/.
The WIA board voted to endorse the final papers at their February board meeting.
The revised band plan document has also been released, including a new introduction, updated graphics plus we have
now released two band plan posters – one for LF to HF and one for VHF to SHF. All of the band plan documents are
available from the WIA website at: Link
https://www.wia.org.au/members/bandplans/data/
The final step of this process will now commence which is to update the Amateur RALI licensing instructions to bring
them into alignment with the new band plan. That work should be complete within the next month.
Thanks to the whole WIA TAC Team and to everyone who provided input to the consultation.
Regards,
Grant Willis, VK5GR
WIA Technical Advisory Committee Chairperson
Email: tac(at)wia.org.au
Page Last Updated: Sunday, 01 Mar 2026 at 19:27 hours by Lee Moyle
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