Boom! More great news and this time it’s from Vienna in Austria 🇦🇹 The very first permanent CB repeater is now online and can be accessed. Below we’ve of course got a video from some tests of the gateway and of the QYT QT-58 hand held which appears to be making baby steps in sales across Europe. Enjoy the video!
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Sorry Simon, but I agree to Skipper Kittsee! Apart from the frequency, this video contribution has nothing to do with CB radio. In Austria, CB is limited to 4 W and 8 kHz modulation. However, the handheld in the video contribution is an amateur radio device that requires an operationg license and is not permitted on the frequency shown, and the gateway is obviously also operated with inadmissible amateur radio hardware. 73 frantsch
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You’ve lost me. The hand held is a QYT CB-58 and it’s sold as a CB radio NOT a ham radio. The radio is in basic effect a cloned Cobra AM radio with FM added. In contact with the factory I’ll agree I’ve seen no ROHS papers, no CE approval etc but it’s a CB radio this QYT. However IF you want “ham radio” it can only be done at the factory for 40 channels maximum.. I understand people are pissed off but the QYT whether grey import as no paperwork is indeed a CB. I was offered to test but refused as no documentation and only 40ch maximum, not more. Regards Simon
https://www.qytradio.com/qyt-long-range-cb-58-handheld-citizen-band-cb-27mhz-radio_p183.html
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Sorry Simon, but you are mistaken! In Austria (and anywhere else), the operation of any radio device that is able transmit frequencies other than cb, or pm 446 is subject to authorization, regardless of any title under which it is to be sold.
Further reading:
– https://www.bmk.gv.at/dam/jcr:41b422cb-b6fc-450e-bd8b-4932c169a442/201402.pdf
– https://info.bmlrt.gv.at/dam/jcr:12902485-fbd8-4d4f-9e9b-f7564f7c3e6f/FSB-LN%20-%20Diverse%20Funknetze_%20Stand%2002%20November%202019.pdf
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Then I don’t understand. The video shows a QYT CB with 27.335 on the display.. This is a cheap hand held 40 channels FM (it’s a clone of Cobra AM hand held) I just don’t see how this radio is “amateur radio” and operates “other than CB, or PMR446” it’s a CB Radio on FM 27.335 not PMR
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Got it, Simon, my mistake! I messed it up with another dual-band QYT radio. The CB-58 is, as you indicated, not CE approved, hence not permitted or not officially sold in Austria, and therefore rather unknown, that’s why I got confused.
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It is indeed a CB. Grey import, it’s a copy of a Cobra AM radio, looks like CRT menu with FM added. When asked for ROHS and CE approval for tests etc the emails stopped and since no news.
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Sorry Simon! But this gateway in Vienna on channel 33 is really big crap! From a distance of more than 60 km it completely disrupted the reception at the contest on Saturday evening. The transmission power is far too high! Here on a mountain, we are already receiving the same gateway on channels 31 and 39, only from other locations. Vienna stations are already known for their arrogance and their interference on other channels. The call channel 9 has become absolutely unusable as a result of these stations. Important emergency radio exercises are extremely disturbed by the Viennese! So it is no longer fun to go up a mountain for a portable or a contest. Viennese stations are all at home, broadcasting with extremely high output, which is only good for sofa radio operators. No, Simon, this is not good news at all!
73 Skipper Kittsee
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Great information and down here never heard this one. Thanks for the news it’s very interesting indeed
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