INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
	
	Geneva,  27 May 1998	
	No.  244-8	

The Local Frequency List Management System
(LFL) and the Weekly Circular on Diskette
(WIC-on-Diskette)		
       	
via ITU Website  (http://www.itu.int/brsoft/terrawic/index.html) 	
The Weekly Circular (WIC) is a weekly publication responding to provisions of the Radio Regulations, which contains information relating to the frequency assignment notifications received by the BR from the Member Administrations of the ITU.
The WIC-on-Diskette is an electronic publication of the Weekly Circular that includes its three main parts (Part I, Part II and Part III) plus the Special Sections corresponding to the terrestrial Services.
In addition to the diskette edition, it is also available from 1 May 1998 as an On-line Publication either on a yearly subscription basis or through the Electronic Bookshop for individual issues, functionally enabling direct download of the files from the ITU’s Web-site.	
Date of publication:	Available	
Language:	Multilingual edition:  English, French, Spanish
User Manual:  English only	
Hardware & sofware
requirements:	IBM PC or 100% compatible
MS-DOS version 3.3 or later,
Windows 95 or Windows NT.
(More details see page 3.)	
Price in Swiss Francs:	Yearly-Subscription:   Diskette or On-line
Catalogue Price:      1650.–
Member States and Sector Members:     1400.–
Least developed countries:      330.–
Individual issues:   Electronic Bookshop  –  Unique price
Catalogue Price:     40.–	

On-Line:  Price multiplier for multi-users	
Number of authorized users	1	2-10	11-25	26-50	51-100	> 100	
Price multiplier	1	2	4	6	9	on request	

Please complete the enclosed Order Form and return it, duly signed, to the ITU Sales and Marketing Service.

The Local Frequency List Management System
(LFL) and the Weekly Circular on Diskette
(WIC-on-Diskette)
Background
1.	The Weekly Circular (WIC) is a weekly publication responding to provisions of the Radio Regulations which contains information relating to the frequency assignment notifications received from the Member Administrations of the ITU.
The WIC comprises of three main “Parts” plus various “Special Sections”: Part I serves as acknowledgement of receipt; Part II contains notifications which are included in the Master International Frequency Register following their examination by the Bureau; Part III contains the notifications returned to the administrations without recording in the Master Register, subsequent to an unfavourable Finding.
Requests for modifications to different assignment Plans, relating to terrestrial services, are published in corresponding Special Sections of the WIC.
2.	The International Frequency List (IFL) contains information relating to radio frequency assignments recorded in the Master International Frequency Register (MIFR). It is published twice a year and includes all the updates to the MIFR that appeared in the weekly Circulars between each edition of the IFL. It also includes software tools that enables users to process any extracted subset of the database in local application systems. 
3.	The Frequency Assignment Plans on CD-ROM (Plans on CD-ROM) is a similar application to the IFL on CD-ROM containing a copy of the following frequency assignment Plans established by Regional Administrative Radio Conferences and maintained by the Bureau in accordance with the procedures laid down in the relevant Regional Agreements:
	ST61	The Plan for VHF/UHF Broadcasting (Region 1) (Stockholm, 1961)
GE75	The Plan for MF Broadcasting (Regions 1 and 3) and LF Broadcasting (Region 1) (Geneva, 1975) 
	RJ81	The Plan for MF Broadcasting (Region 2) (Rio de Janeiro, 1981)
	GE84	The Plan for VHF Sound Broadcasting (Region 1 and part of Region 3) (Geneva, 1984)
	GE85	The Plans for Maritime Radionavigation Services in the European Maritime Area and for MF Maritime Mobile and Aeronautical Radionavigation Services (Region 1) (Geneva, 1985)
	GE89	The Plan for VHF/UHF Television Broadcasting in the African Broadcasting Area and Neighbouring Countries (Geneva, 1989).
The Local Frequency List Management System
The Local Frequency List Management System is a software package intended for users with limited skills in the usage of PCs, which capitalises on the data extraction capabilities of the IFL on CD‑ROM, to form a set of dBase tables which can be readily updated from similarly extracted weekly Circular data. These tables, which are identical in format to the WIC-on-Diskette tables, are identified as the Local Frequency List, or LFL.
It is to be used either with the IFL on CD-ROM in conjunction with Parts I, II and III of the WIC‑on‑Diskette or with the Plans on CD-ROM in conjunction with related Special Sections of the WIC-on-Diskette.

The WIC-on-Diskette
The WIC-on-Diskette is an electronic publication of the WIC. It allows the user to select how to see the data (e.g. access the information by frequency or country code), and what information to see (e.g. only the frequency assignments of a limited number of administrations in a particular frequency band). There are “Help” and other built-in functions for printing and PC-based filing of the WIC data.
The current release of the WIC-on-Diskette (version 3.4 - March 1998) which is issued in conjunction with the Local Frequency List Management System (LFL) contains data concerning frequency assignments to terrestrial services published in Parts I, II and III of the weekly Circular, a summary of data (including associated space station’s names and antenna beams) concerning frequency assignments relating to space services notified under Article 13 and data contained in Special Sections relating to the requests for modification of the Plans mentioned in paragraph 3 above.
The LFL/WIC-on-Diskette package dates from 1991, and as a DOS/dBase application, will continue to service the electronic publication of Terrestrial data until 1 January 1999. After that date it will be replaced by a new publication now under development. 
Hardware and software requirements
The use of the LFL and WIC-on-Diskette software requires an IBM PC/AT or a PC which is 100% compatible with the following minimum configuration: at least 512 Kbytes memory, one high-density 3.5” diskette drive, one hard disk with at least 4 Mbytes spare capacity, MS-DOS (version 3.3 or later) or 100% compatible, Windows 95 or Windows NT operating system, VGA monitor (preferably colour) and an industry standard printer.
Format
The software package has been developed using CLIPPER 5.0 and the data is organised in a set of relational tables in dBase III + format. The software and data are available on double-sided 3.5” high density diskettes.
They are also available from 1 May 1998 as an On-line Publication either on a subscription basis or through the Electronic Bookshop enabling direct download of the files from the ITU’s Web-site (http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/index.html)
Languages
Screen menus, Help functions and user messages are user selectable in English, French and Spanish. The User Manual is available in English only.

GENERAL  CONDITIONS  OF  SALE
n	Prices
The prices quoted in the catalogue, as well as in the separate lists of ITU‑R and ITU‑T Recommendations and the publication notices, distributed free of charge and visible on the Web at the address
http://www.itu.int/publications
are in Swiss francs (CHF) and are subject to change without notice. Discounts of 15% are granted for Member States and Sector Members participating in the work of ITU. Administrations of least developed countries are entitled to a 80% discount.
All additional information concerning CD‑ROMs, online Recommendations and the ITU Electronic Bookshop can be found in the Catalogue of publications and its associated Lists of ITU‑R and ITU‑T Recommendations.
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All publications ordered from the ITU must be paid for in advance. Payments can be made:
a)	by credit card: American Express, Eurocard/Mastercard, Visa;
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f)	or by UNESCO coupon.
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n	Forms of dispatch
The catalogue price includes the cost of dispatch by second-class mail or the means of carriage most advantageous to the ITU. Dispatch can be requested in other forms: i.e. air mail (express and registered), EMS, Federal Express, TNT, diplomatic pouch. If one of these alternative method is chosen, the dispatch cost will be added to the quote. Customs duties and other taxes or dues levied on imported goods are not borne by the ITU.
n	Return of publications
Where a publication found to be faulty is returned to the ITU, the latter’s responsibility shall be limited to replacement of the publication and payment of the costs arising from such replacement. Any publication returned to the ITU as unwanted must reach it within two (2) months from the date of its dispatch to the customer, subject to the ITU’s prior agreement. A minimum charge of Fifty Swiss francs (CHF 50.–) will normally be invoiced to the customer by the ITU for return of the publication to stock.
In the case of electronic publications (CD-ROM and online), these general conditions shall apply, subject to the specific derogation provisions contained in the licence agreements. The placing of an order implies full acceptance of these general conditions of sale.
None of the provisions of these general conditions of sale shall be interpreted as constituting a derogation or renunciation of the privileges, immunities and facilities enjoyed by the ITU in accordance with the international agreement applicable to it, in particular the Headquarters Agreement concluded with the Swiss Federal Council on 22 July 1971, as well as the Swiss law or any other relevant national legislation.
Please note that orders cannot be taken over the telephone.
They should be sent by telefax or electronic mail.

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	UNION  INTERNATIONALE  DES  TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS
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PROTECTION  OF  RIGHTS,  LICENCE  AGREEMENT
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