SM7EQL
Kortvågs- och UKV-tekniker
Ändringar i EMC direktivet är på gång och som i värsta fall kan betyda slutet för den lilla skaran hembyggare och experimenterande radioamatörer att utöva sin hobby - lagligt. Radiooperatörer som enbart använder sig av fabrikstillverkad CE-märkt utrustning påverkas nog inte av detta.
/Bengt
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Info från IARU Region 1;
Change of EMC Directive (Urgent - Dangerous)
Written by Thilo, DL9KCE
Friday, 16 December 2011 10:06
As part of the NEW LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK (NLF) ALIGNMENT PACKAGE the European Commission is reworking some directives. One of the affected directives is the EMC directive including some major changes. Most of them are neutral or even good from an amateur radio operators perspective. However there are two slight changes pickaback carried, which very much affect us. In short words:
1. The sentence “Kits of components to be assembled by radio amateurs and commercial equipment modified by and for the use of radio amateurs are not regarded as commercially available equipment.” is to be deleted in the new version. That would render kits and modified equipment to be fully subjected to the EMC directive!
2. The definition of the term ‘electromagnetic disturbance’ will include the wanted signal of a radio as a possible source. This is not in line with the radio regulation of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and not in line with the vocabulary of the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC).
IARU Region 1 will respond to it with a letter soon.
However we strongly suggest, that you contact your local MEPs and tell them about those two changes in the EMCD, that are neither in line with the reasoning of the New Legislative Framework, nor does it help to improve protection of radio services or equipment.
/Bengt
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Info från IARU Region 1;
Change of EMC Directive (Urgent - Dangerous)
Written by Thilo, DL9KCE
Friday, 16 December 2011 10:06
As part of the NEW LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK (NLF) ALIGNMENT PACKAGE the European Commission is reworking some directives. One of the affected directives is the EMC directive including some major changes. Most of them are neutral or even good from an amateur radio operators perspective. However there are two slight changes pickaback carried, which very much affect us. In short words:
1. The sentence “Kits of components to be assembled by radio amateurs and commercial equipment modified by and for the use of radio amateurs are not regarded as commercially available equipment.” is to be deleted in the new version. That would render kits and modified equipment to be fully subjected to the EMC directive!
2. The definition of the term ‘electromagnetic disturbance’ will include the wanted signal of a radio as a possible source. This is not in line with the radio regulation of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and not in line with the vocabulary of the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC).
IARU Region 1 will respond to it with a letter soon.
However we strongly suggest, that you contact your local MEPs and tell them about those two changes in the EMCD, that are neither in line with the reasoning of the New Legislative Framework, nor does it help to improve protection of radio services or equipment.
