International Radio Consultative Committee
The
International Radio Consultative Committee or Comité Consultatif International
pour la Radio (CCIR) was founded in 1927 as part of the International
Telecommunication Union at a conference in Washington, D.C. In 1992 the CCIR
was transformed into ITU-R, the Radiocommunication Sector at the Additional
Plenipotentiary Conference in Geneva.
CCIR's role was to regulate the allocation of radio frequencies and so
reduce the interference between radio stations in various countries. Also it
had the responsibility for regulating orbital positions of satellites relating
to radio communications.
CCIR published international engeneering standard documents, among which
the standards for the analog and digital radio signals.
Stamp catalogue - 50th anniversary
Austria
Liechtenstein 7 June 1979
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