Simon Brown (HB9DRV) wrote:
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Thank goodness for Wayne & Eric!
Translation by Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ
The manufacture of the PT-8000 product line has been discontinued.
Due to the constant obstacles which we must overcome in ensuring
compliance with EU-wide governmental regulations imposed on
manufacturers, we were
Unless the intent was only to sell on the Swiss market, the effect of
EEC regulations ought to be less than without the EEC. The point of the
EEC regulations is that you only have to comply once, even if having to
meet the concerns of all the members means that the regulations are a
bit more difficult. Without the regulations, you woudl still have
needed to meet all the requirements, if you wanted to sell throughout
Europe, but would have had to submit to an approval process in every
country. The approval requirements might even be incompatible.
Moreover, the big problem for EU amateurs is that the requirements are
actually compromised, to meet manufacturer objections, and not well
enforced, with the result that there is a lot of legal consumer
equipment that causes severe RFI and also a lot of illegal equipment.
(I believe the same happens at the US federal level, at least with
respect to compromising EMC requirements).
required to make constant design changes to this top-quality
transceiver. The very high design goals which we had set for the PT-8000
could be fulfilled in a few prototype units. However, guaranteeing this
high standard without limitations in a series production program with
many vendors runs into difficulties which cannot be overcome at a cost
level which is still acceptable.
That's a different problem. The design wasn't reproducible and could
not be rescued by production engineering.
--
David Woolley
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