[Elecraft] [OT] Hilberling PT-8000 cancelled.

[Brett Howard]

Its also quite nice that CE requires you to pass some ESD requirements
as well...


On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 01:45 +0100, Brendan Minish wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 13:29 -0700, Alan Bloom wrote:
> > However, I believe Europe also has SUSCEPTABILITY
> > requirements which the FCC does not.  That is a good thing for radio
> > amateurs, or anyone who operates a transmitter.
> 
> In Europe we do have ingress limits for consumer equipment and indeed
> they are set high enough to be useful to protect the transmitting
> amateur from many of the issues surrounding badly engineered consumer
> devices. 
> 
> Our CE rules also set emissions limits for consumer devices but unlike
> FCC part b the liability for any remaining issues to radio users EVEN
> where a device is fully CE compliant remains with the manufacturer or
> importer, not with the consumer that owns the device.
> 
> CE compliance does not assume compliance with the EMC directive (article
> 4a is the relevant section for us)
> 
>  "the electromagnetic disturbance it generates does not exceed a level
> allowing radio and telecommunications equipment and other apparatus to
> operate as intended"
> 
> no minimum limit is set for this condition to presumed to be met.
> 
> This is actually great deal of protection for amateurs since even a
> fully CE complaint device that is causing interference to a radio user's
> normal operation must be resolved by the manufacturer or importer, not
> the hapless consumer that bought the device without knowledge that it
> was going to cause an issue for the 'radio ham next door'
> 
> 
> the EMC directive is available to read here 
> http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/electr_equipment/emc/directiv/text.htm
> 
> 
> 73
> EI6IZ (EMC representative for the IRTS)
> 
>