[Elecraft] Vol 68, Issue 3

[alan]

Commercial amateur equipment does need to be certified.
In the UK the certification is to Interface Requirement 2028 and the EMC directives etc apply with rigs CE marked to show compliance.
 
The Foundation licence permits commercially available kits to be used on-air that will be IR2028 compliant if built to the supplied spec.
 
Your 'black boxes' have to be "type approved" anyway - although the traditional test house type approval has been superseded. Self certification with a technical construction file or test house results as back up evidence is now the norm.
 
Ragards 73 Alan

--- On Wed, 2/12/09, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

Message: 1
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 22:20:16 -0000
From: "Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy" <gm4esd at btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 in the CQWW contest  .....

While I agree with much of your argument, there could be a price to pay in 
the form of Equipment Type Approval.if further regulations were imposed on 
the Amateur Service. Without doubt Type Approval would increase the selling 
price of the "black boxes", and put an end to the use of homebrewed 
equipment.

As matters stand, the Amateur Service is viewed by most Authorities as a 
"Self Regulatory" Service. The standards for amateur transmitter harmonic 
and spurious levels are intended to protect Services other than the Amateur 
Service from interference caused by amateur transmitters, a fact that I am 
sure you already know. There is talk about reducing these levels. ......