A meeting of the European Communications Office (ECO) took place last year in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, where we were informed “of the record” that the CB was in grave danger.
So we transmit it (see the writings we posted on Facebook and the ECBF website) we started to make movements, but we did not believe it. Until May, the European Radiocommunication Association (EAR) informed us of the desire to delete an Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) standard exclusively from the CB, namely EN 301489-13.
The intention was to include the CB in another standard dedicated to the TETRA, in our view is to dilute the name CB among other services as a further step in the disappearance of the CB. Justified by the new European Radio Directive, Directive 2014/53/EU better known as RED directive. To combat this suppression, the ECBF prepared with its member associations a mass protest campaign at European level, which would begin in the coming weeks. Fortunately, it has not been necessary (for the moment …) to start up; Nevertheless, the ECBF is prepared to initiate at any moment the necessary actions for the defense of the users of the CB.
Last week from 3 to 6 July, a regular meeting of the group responsible for EMC standards, ERM WGEMC, was held at the headquarters of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). At the meeting we attended as full members of ETSI and agreed to create a new item (NWI), dedicated to adapting the existing CB standard, EN 301489-13, to the requirements of the new directive.
This NWI will be guided by Martijn Verhoef President of the ROMEO FOXTROT DX CLUB and President of the ECBF in the Netherlands. The creation of this NWI counted on the support of the AER as well as of other industrial members ETSI.
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