Just had a chat with Ofcom - The LPD band IS legal in the UK

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I do hope the moderators don't mind, but I am posting this here as well as the PMR446 forum, this affects the 70cm ham band, so I thought I'd post here too if that's OK.

OK, there has been a lot of talk about this, including rumours and quotes from out of date legislation, so I decided to call Ofcom and put this issue to bed.

The current legislation that applies to LPD radios is Ofcom regulation IR2030 of 2006.

The 69 LPD channels are in the 433.05 to 434.79 MHz band, they have 10mW output power, and 25kHz channel spacing - therefore if the equipment is tested and CE marked to meet these specifications (which the Midland G7 and Intek MT-5050 are) then they are perfectly legal to use in the UK.

Another issue is that there is supposed to be data transmission only in this band (several radio amateurs have said this) - In 2006 (IR2030) this changed and voice is now allowed.

Ofcom told me that there had been extensive communication between themselves and Midland so that the position could be clarified before the G7 radios were produced and sold in the UK.

So there you have it, 433MHz LPD is perfectly legal in the UK.

IR2030 can be found here;
http://tinyurl.com/5qwvx8

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Please post in the duplicate topic.

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