Ofcom intention to legalise SSB CB in 2013

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Good morning SD.

The good news from Ofcom is as always very carefully worded. Take a look at the EU harmonization document and you'll find that the new allocation applies to very specific frequencies. Fortunately these are the same across Europe rather than just the UK 27/81 frequencies.

If your radio is old, it will probably not be CE approved, so even if the channel frequencies match the new standard, you may well need to purchase a new rig in order to work 100% legally.

If your radio is a modern, compliant rig like the AT5555 it will be able to also interact with all of you existing legal CB radios as well. This is because it has capability top be switched to correct frequencies and also correct modes (FM for the existing CB Standards)

By the way, the adoption of harmonization proposals will probably permit use of AM modulation as well, but this will have limited practical advantage for us as preppers.

LS

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Hi Barneboy,

Strange, my reply to you evaporated...

Anyway, I'm still very tied up in getting my Retreat sorted and have very limited time to participate on the forum at the moment.

The announcement of the SSB allocation seemed not to have been picked up on, so I've just popped in to let you guys know.

Stay safe

LS