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

[Stewart Baker]

All fine in principle, but here in the UK, nobody is enforcing the 
EMC legislation. Maybe Ireland is more fortunate.

73
Stewart G3RXQ
Member RSGB EMC Committee

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:45:54 +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/tex
t.htm
>
>
> 73
> EI6IZ (EMC representative for the IRTS)