About RR Explorer

The ITU Radio Regulations — and the spectrum management built around them

Why this site exists

The Radio Regulations are public, and the ITU publishes them free of charge. What is hard is not obtaining them but reading them. The allocation table runs to hundreds of pages; a footnote means different things in different Regions and to different countries; and a change made at one conference is visible only by holding two editions side by side. RR Explorer does that work once, carefully, so that the answer can be looked up rather than reconstructed. It does not replace the Regulations. It is a way of reading them.

What is here

Frequency allocations

Article 5 of Volume 1, in five editions, for all three ITU Regions.

Footnotes

Every Article 5 footnote, with its text in each edition, its history, and the countries it names.

Articles and provisions

Volume 1 beyond Article 5, citable down to a single provision number.

Resolutions and IBR Recommendations

Volume 3 and Volume 4, by edition.

WRC agenda and CPM

The agenda items for WRC-27 and WRC-31, and where they overlap in the spectrum.

Country and service views

The same data read by country, or by radio service.

Where the text comes from