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) > > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
