Thanks Tisha. Appreciate the insight.?
The communication from the department did not have any more specifics that they asked for. (In their not-so-formal looking application form).?
My sense is that they¡¯re just looking for something from any country vs enforcing what they might care about.?
Fair point about kit built radios. I can ask the engineer who responded to my email but my fear (anticipation) is that they¡¯ll simply decline vs engaging further.?
On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 09:16 Tisha Hayes, AA4HA via <Tisha.Hayes=
[email protected]> wrote:
IMHO,
Getting product compliance (conformity) may not happen. There are at least a dozen different regulatory bodies across the world that require different technical and testing standards to earn a conformity certificate. The testing is usually done by independent engineering laboratories and firms and can cost several thousands of dollars (euros, pounds, US dollars) to happen.
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On kit-built radios you may 'never' get a conformity certificate as much of the RF circuitry is assembled by radio amateurs themselves and errors in assembly or modifications would invalidate any certificate.
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You may need to look closer at what Nepal requires to see if there is an exception for kit-built or amateur-built radios. Maybe they have something or they may be so tightly regulated as to not allow it at all.
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It would probably be impossible for QRP Labs to gain and then maintain conformity certificates and test results for all of their products, even across just one regulatory agency.
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Tisha, AA4HA
