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In the UK, the use of wireless microphone systems requires a Wireless Telegraphy Act license, except for the license-free bands of 173.8–175.0 MHz and 863–865 MHz. These license-free bands are sometimes referred to as "Channel 70" (not to be confused with TV Channel 69, which operated on 854–862 MHz and always required a license from JFMG ...
The 27 MHz CB27/81 Bandplan is a list of the channel frequencies for FM CB radio in the United Kingdom.. Unlike CB usage in the United States, and subsequently elsewhere in the world, the original UK 40 channels progress in order with 10 kHz spacing.
The UK Government eventually legalised CB radio, and on 2 November 1981 a CB service was introduced on a frequency band and offset that is incompatible with the imported American radios. At the same time the ownership of non-UK approved 27 MHz transceivers was made illegal except for those obtained by UK radio amateurs holding a UK "A" (HF ...
Radio Newark Newark: 107.8 FM Also on small-scale DAB+: 2 May 2015 Nevis Radio: Fort William: 96.6 FM 97.0 FM 102.3 FM 102.4 FM 1 August 1994 NOTE: On-air from 1994 as a commercial station until switching to a community licence in 2013: Radio Ninesprings Yeovil and South Somerset: 104.5 FM (Yeovil and parts of West Dorset) 103.3 FM
The Broadcasting Act 1990 (c. 42) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which aimed to liberalise and deregulate the British broadcasting industry by promoting competition; an example being ITV, in particular, which had earlier been described by Margaret Thatcher as "the last bastion of restrictive practices". [1]
It regulates amateur radio in the country as an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications services. It assigns call signs, issues amateur radio licences, allots frequency spectrum, and monitors the radio waves.
The frequencies from 430 to 440 MHz are allocated on a secondary basis to licensed radio amateurs who are allowed to use up to 40 W (16 dBW) between 430 and 432 MHz and 400 W (26 dBW) between 432 and 440 MHz. Channels 1 to 14 are UK amateur repeater outputs and channels 62 to 69 are UK amateur repeater inputs.
Previously, Radio 1 had 'borrowed' BBC Radio 2's FM frequencies for approximately 24 hours each week, gradually reducing at the end of the 1980s until the final 'borrow' took place in March 1990, five months before Radio 2 became the BBC's first FM-only service when on 27 August 1990, BBC Radio 5 began broadcasting on Radio 2's MW frequencies.