11 Jun
2002
11 Jun
'02
8:56 p.m.
Hi,
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) said:
True most are related to radio (not just amateur stuff) but that's where
most home construction has traditionally been. Maplin still sell kits and
there are a number of firms making thing like PIC chip kits, and even the
Forth Interest Group UK sell a HC11 board kit (to get back to computers)
and I wonder if all the Vellemen kits are certified??
What with the data terminal equipment regs and new legislation governing
what equipment you can fit in cars, it's enough to make a guy think about
emigrating across the pond!
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
I think the fact that we've been told totally
different versions of this
(BTW, at least one book -- 'EMC for Product Designers' -- confirms my
version from what I can see, although it doesn't sepcifically mention
kits) implies that the DTI don't have a clue.. But that's not news.
Yeah...we were talking to 2 different sections of the same Government
department, it's not surprising we got 2 different answers ;-)
You can judge that the situation was satisfactorally resolved by looking at
the large number of kit manufacturers in this country.
Apart from amateur radio kits (which may well be classed as home-built
amateur radio equipment), there are very few kit suppliers that I can
think of.