ARLA/CLUSTER: Administração australiana reverte a decisão de ilegalizar 40 canais em UHF para a Banda do Cidadão

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

ACMA reverses decision on CB sets

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has reversed
its decision to make 40 channel UHF CB radios illegal from June 2017

ABC say: It is estimated there are thousands of UHF, or citizens band
(CB) radios on farms and in trucks, caravans and businesses throughout
Australia. Upgrading to 80 channel radios was going to cost some
businesses tens of thousands of dollars.

The manager of spectrum licencing policy at ACMA, Dominic Byrne, said
the two systems are working well alongside each other so the authority
had decided to remove the requirement to upgrade to 80 channel UHF
sets.

"These changes were introduced to manage congestion and interference
in the CB radio channels," he said.

Truck drivers around the country were taken by surprise by the
original decision to make the 40 channel radios illegal, according to
Rod Hannifey from Dubbo in NSW.

Read the full ABC story at
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-03/acma-reverses-decision-ruling-millions-of-uhf-radios-illegal/8235502

On May 27, 2011 the channel spacing on 476/477 MHz CB was reduced from
25 kHz to 12.5 kHz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF_CB