Trevor,
Thanks for the valuable input.
Here also there is no specific legislation about SDR, but the legislation includes a restriction about importing any equipment capable of intercepting any radio communication. The possession of same is not really forbidden legally and also there has been no case of prosecution against anyone in spite hundreds around. But in order to import legally same for promoting the hobby (for schools/Universities) and to encourage the legislators to change the law we need some arguments and this is the whole purpose of my mail, also to show the the best practices worldwide.
Thus feedback form one and all about their own legislation worldwide will be surely helpful.
73
Jean Marc (3B8DU)
On Jul 9, 2019, at 11:04 PM, M5AKA via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Jean, I'm not aware of any country that has legislation specifically concering SDR's, certainly the UK doesn't. However, I can see one potential pitfall. The UK permits any form of modulation (and any bandwidth) to be used, however, in some countries they mandate specific ITU Emission Designators in the licence.
While on-air there is no difference between the same mode produced by different means the Emission Designators can be different. An old example of this used to be F1B and J2B for RTTY depending on whether direct frequency shift or audio tones to an SSB transmitter were used.
The use of SDR's could theoretically result in Emission Designators that may not appear in the licenses of some countries
73 Trevor M5AKA
On Tuesday, 9 July 2019, 19:07:04 BST, Adrian Engele via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Hello Jean, Have you looked at Wikipedia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio There may be some material that you can reference.
73, Adrian AA5UK
On Tuesday, July 9, 2019, 12:36:13 PM CDT, Jean Marc Momple via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:Dear All,
I would be grateful if you could send me your regulator position about SDR's or legal framework in your country about same. Having some discussions with the 3B8 regulator (right now) about same this may help clearing some issues.
Thanking you beforehand.
Jean Marc (3B8DU)
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