scope:

The present document covers the technical requirements for transmitters and receivers used in stations of angle modulated, Double Side Band (DSB) modulated and/or Single Side Band (SSB) modulated Citizens' Band (CB) radio equipment operating in all or part of the frequency band 26,960 MHz to 27,410 MHz with a channel spacing of 10 kHz, and intended for analogue speech and/or data transmission.

Citizens' Band radio equipment operation is in accordance with Draft ECC Decision on the harmonised use of frequencies for Citizens' Band (CB) radio equipment [i.5].

Transmission and reception takes place on the same channel (single frequency simplex mode).

Any equipment using national regulations on Citizens' Band (CB) permitting the use of channels outside of the carrier frequencies shown in table 1 within the frequency range from 26 MHz to 28 MHz can use the present document.

The types of equipment covered by the present document are as follows:

- Base station: equipment fitted with antenna connector;

- Mobile station: equipment fitted with antenna connector.

- Hand portable stations:

a) Either fitted with an antenna connector; or

b) Without an external antenna connector but fitted with a permanent internal or a temporary internal 50 ohm RF connector which allows access to the transmitter output and the receiver input.

Hand portable station equipment without an external or internal Radio Frequency (RF) connector and without the possibility of having a temporary internal 50 ohm RF connector is not covered by the present document.

The present document is intended to cover the provisions of Article 3.2, of Directive 1999/5/EC [i.2] (R&TTE Directive), which states that "... radio equipment shall be so constructed that it effectively uses the spectrum allocated to terrestrial/space radio communications and orbital resources so as to avoid harmful interference."

In addition to the present document, other ENs that specify technical requirements in respect of essential requirements under other parts of Article 3 of the R&TTE Directive [i.2] may apply to equipment within the scope of the present document.

NOTE: A list of such ENs is included on the web site http://www.newapproach.org.