Hi Everyone,
My name is Steve and Im brand new here.
Hope someone can help me.
I have a couple of questions.
1.Can I legally use a Talking house transmitter in the UK ?
2.Can anyone reccomend a good suitable adapter and where can I get it?
Hello STAN-THE-MAN:
The Restricted License which you may be able to get in the UK (see the link coming up) allows 1-Watt on AM for limited periods of time, but the Talking House is only 1/10th of a Watt.
Another disqualifier for the Talking House, it is designed for 10kHz channel spacing, but in the UK I think the channel spacing is 9kHz.
Now the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted_Service_Licence
Steve,
Here, http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/ , you can find something about RSL's and community broadcasting.
Some other information:
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/spectrum-enforcement/law
http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2006/07/14/legalising-the-use-of-low-power-fm-transmitters-for-mp3-players/
Wonderful, Rob Veld, thanks for these Ofcom links!
Evidentally while we have been asleep here in the "Homeland," our partner country over in the U.K. has developed what they call "The Civil Use of Radio Spectrum," and reading the Ofcom guidelines is very hopeful for us sitting here with our toy rules dating from the 1930s.
Perhaps those few in government who read and think can study the Ofcom model and come up with a civil plan for "bringing radio to the people" over here in backword land.
Thanks everyone.
I emailed ofcom with my questions reg using the Talking house and after about 1 month received a negative reply from them,they said that any such broadcast would be illegal as,unlike the FM band there is no excemption for very low transmitters and I would need a ofcom licence to broadcast such a service and ofcom dont have any licences that would be appropriate.
Also,they consider the device to be dangerouse to use as there is probably no CV mark.
Anyone know any legal way around this?what about the CV mark,my talking house has a sticker that says "passed QC" probably means passed quality control in the U.S.
tHANK YOU.
Thank you for your e-mail to Ofcom dated 22 April.
I’m afraid that any such broadcasts would be illegal as, unlike the FM band, there is no exemption for very low-power transmitters. Therefore, you would require an Ofcom licence to broadcast such a service, and we do not have any licences that would be appropriate for the kind of service you propose.
In addition, my engineering colleagues tell me that the transmitter you plan to use would be dangerous to use in Europe, and has no CV mark.
Can any one advise on the above.
Thanks ,
STAN-THE-MAN.