Main Problems
Trick 1 - The CIRAF Trick
Someone wants to reduce collisions: various CIRAF zones will be deleted or during the co-ordination CIRAF zones will be deleted to "avoid" problems.
Still in "use" during April 2007...
This was "working" for many years but now HFCC software was improved and "missing" CIRAF zones will be added.
Trick 2 - The Date Trick
At the end of the season some "updates" were made with the FDATE of an rather earlier date. After the change it looks for other frequency managers
that this required frequency is in use since the beginning of the season.
Next year the co-ordination will be made with the argument: "We were also here last full season !"
Still in "use" during April 2007...
Trick 3 - The Decision Trick
You want to coordinate during the conference and you want to solve this problem now. The other frequency manager is telling you that he cannot decide
here and this week. At the end nothing will be done and you can wait for years. Why does he attend the conference ?
Still in "use" during each conference...
Trick 4 - The Friday Trick
You coordinate during the conference week "your" clear frequency and on the last day, on Friday, just before closing of the conference someone takes
your frequency. It too late for further discussions, because conference has ended and the "other" is not more attending ...
Still in "use" during each conference...
Trick 5 - The Power Trick
During the co-ordination meeting a lower power will be included in the HF database or the power will be reduced to avoid stronger interference. During
the running season the power will be increased back to a higher level ...
The other trick is to list a higher power in order to protect the own required frequency...
Still in "use" during A07 season...
Trick 6 - "Self Coordination"
Two entries are in the HF database, a real one and a wooden one. In case the real one does not work any more, both requirements will be removed and
the wooden will be replaced by a correct entry and the former used entry will be replaced by a wooden one...
Still in "use" during April 2007...
Trick 7 - "Fiction Schedules"
During the last years various administrations are uploading schedules with language information and such details. The schedules are looking real but are full fiction because they will be not on air. The shame is that they don't care it transmitters or listed sites are available at all. This completely un-professional ...
Further Problems
The Wooden Problem
This is still not solved by many frequency managers and this method reduces the planning effectiveness for the season. One or two wooden are acceptable for
planning, but to keep these useless entries in the operational database is not fair. Problem un-solved by HFCC since more than 25 years !
Still in "use" since the beginning of HFCC and also during old ITU times...
The Shame to Ignore the History or Non Respect of the old Frequency Users
Some stations are using a new frequency of radio station who are here for many years or decades. The new "invaders" are causing strong interference to services
who already use their frequencies for many years. This way to operate is no fair play and gentlemen like and should be banned by all frequency managers, because many broadcasters have their own "house frequency" !
There is a very interesting article from 1996 by our colleague Mr. Stanley Leinwoll. Here he explained the necessary "Spirit of HFCC".
Unwritten Rules of HFCC:
1.
If a broadcaster has been operating on a frequency-time slot in previous schedules and a conflict is created by another broadcaster who is new
on the same frequency, the newcomer is generally expected to move to another frequency or delete the requirement.
2.
If a broadcaster has a transmission on a frequency for a long period and another broadcaster is on the same frequency for a shorter period and
they have a collision, it is generally easier for the shorter transmission period to find another frequency...
It is a pity that the HFCC, ABU or ASBU has still not found a way within 25 years to create a written guideline for a "good frequency manager" !
