CE marking now (phasing out ?) to become Radio Equipment Directive (RE-D) what happens in UK ?

Ooh Rob,  you don't want to rouse the radio Hams, we are like the Mafia, you may not realise who we are...


There are a modest number of hams doing really clever stuff with digital modulation and digital TV  so on, and in other places internet control gateways for real radios in remote locations with low background noise.  There are amateur funded satellites we can use, as well as competitions for direction finding and "fox hunting"  for the more athletic.... Or for some folk, an excuse to natter.


The internet and radio are not really in competition - even in the old days if you just wanted reliable communications, there was always the post - the radio  thing is the technical challenge, and for me the fact you can park  up in a field, and using the power of the car battery, and an antenna you can put up in an hour you can talk to folk around the world, picking your time and frequency accordingly, with no dependancy on national networks of base stations, telecommunication links, power stations etc,


Mostly it is just fun and educational, occasionally it is useful , and rarely it actually saves lives,


Friends all over the world, but none round here, as Tony Hancock would have said...


73 de G7VZY.

Ooh Rob,  you don't want to rouse the radio Hams, we are like the Mafia, you may not realise who we are...


There are a modest number of hams doing really clever stuff with digital modulation and digital TV  so on, and in other places internet control gateways for real radios in remote locations with low background noise.  There are amateur funded satellites we can use, as well as competitions for direction finding and "fox hunting"  for the more athletic.... Or for some folk, an excuse to natter.


The internet and radio are not really in competition - even in the old days if you just wanted reliable communications, there was always the post - the radio  thing is the technical challenge, and for me the fact you can park  up in a field, and using the power of the car battery, and an antenna you can put up in an hour you can talk to folk around the world, picking your time and frequency accordingly, with no dependancy on national networks of base stations, telecommunication links, power stations etc,


Mostly it is just fun and educational, occasionally it is useful , and rarely it actually saves lives,


Friends all over the world, but none round here, as Tony Hancock would have said...


73 de G7VZY.