In these extraordinary Congress, was notify to all the presents, the intention of the European Conference of Post and Telegraphs (CEPT) to create an European organism, to made all type of standards of telecommunications, including the CB 27MHz standards.

After the congress of Athens of 1998, a brave decision was taken to come near to the enemy, the ECBF decide to register like members of the recently created ETSI and to try to obtain a recognition, a norm for the A.M. and the SSB. In March of the 1989 the ECBF was accepted like full member in the ETSI, in the category of Users.

The beginnings were very hard. Who were those amateurs, pseudo engineer that they tried to standardize the CB in A.M.? We was considered like a demons. We was watched like true bugs or freaky people.

But our certainty, our work, the knowledge of the members that attended the meetings from the ECBF, was making notch, mainly our certainty and sacrifice, attend meetings and more meetings, making a formal appearance, maintaining us fixed when we were right. Demonstrating step by step that the CB was serious and that behind the ECBF was a group of technical and humanly prepared people.

It was obtained in 1993, in a cold winter, in a meeting of the committee of Radio (RES) from ETSI in Berlin, that accepted to do a norm for the A.M. and the SSB, it was a triumph, although limited because the mandate was restricted to 1 W A.M. and 4 Wpep in SSB.

With this perspective, it was not left another thing to do that to work to obtain the best possible norm; two years ago, in 1991 had been published the ETS 300 135 standard only for FM, and Portugal announced that to A.M. and SSB would shortly stop being legal.

In November of 1995 was published a norm that contemplated the modulation in A.M. and SSB, the ETS 300 433 a norm that we did not like, but that was the unique thing that was allowed by those times. The publication of this norm and the pressures of the ECBF forced the return in the decision of the Lusitanian Administration.

Years later, in the 2000, the two CB standards were published in the Official Newspaper of the Community, changing their denomination of ETSI Telecomunications Standard (ETS) to European Norm (EN) passing the two standards to the range of national standard in the countries members of the European Community.

But the work of the ECBF did not finish here; in 1998, together with the ASSOCIATION EUROPÉENNE OF RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS (AER) directed to a study of compatibility between the emissions of CB 27MHz and the analogical systems reception of TV, study that demonstrated the low immunity of the TV receivers, asking the ETSI the modification of the European standards about immunity in TV.

This technical Report, the TR 101 837, would be published by the ETSI in August of the 2000 and would be taken advantage of years later by other Technical Committees.

In this same year was published in the Official Newspaper of the community the EN 301 489-13, harmonized standards that treated about the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) of the CB equipment. This norm, that comprises a great norm, covering all EMC possibilities with radio equipment, has the support and the direct participation of members of the ECBF for its accomplishment.

In 2001, with recently released ECBF General Secretary, Mr. Edgard Rosello, asked for the creation of a norm for the antennas amplified and the analogical amplifiers of TV.

The ECBF with the collaboration of the AER took charge directly of the creation this new Standard, that culminated in 2004 with the publication of two standards, ES 202 056 “Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum Matters (ERM); Active antennas used for broadcast TV and sound reception from 47 MHz to 860 MHz, and the ETSI ES 202 127 Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum Matters (ERM); Radio frequency amplifiers and pre-amplifiers used for broadcast TV and sound reception from 47 MHz to 860 MHz.

Both standards improve the performance and immunity for this kinds of amplifiers in front the CB transmissions.

The AER and the ECBF solicited to the ETSI in the year 2007, the modification of the European norm in A.M. in force the EN 300 433. This performance tries to modify the levels of power of RF in the emitters of CB of A.M. and SSB. The following ETSI members , gave their total support to

the modification of the A.M. norm:

· Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

At the moment we are immersed in the modification of the actual norm of A.M., the EN 300 433. The past 21 of January was celebrated, in the offices of the German Telecommunications Administration (Bundesnetzagentur, BNetzA) in Mainz, to few kilometers of Frankfurt, an extraordinary and monographic meeting on CB of the technical Committee Digital Mobile Radio (TGDMR) of the ETSI.

To the mentioned meeting attended the ECBF President, Dieter Löchter, with other ECBF German members; Thomas Pfannebecker President of CB-radio DCBO and Henning Gajek, expert journalist in CB, also member of the DCBO German Organization CB, the both members of the ECBF. In the meeting, chaired by Mr. Tomas Weber of the BNetzA, also participated:

Brian Copsey, independent expert, and the engineers Wolfang Schnorrenberg from Albrecht/Alan, Udo Rohrsen from Stabo and Oscar Espallargas from President Electronics.

Also, during the meeting, the results of the tests appeared on compatibility between the equipment of CB and the terrestrial digital TV that were made in Kolberg, near Berlin, days 22 and 23 of the last December. These measures demonstrate, again, that only the high powers cause interferences to the TDT receivers.

The result, applied to the last technologies, has been similar to which gave rise to the published in 2000 under title TR 101 837, “Study on 27MHz CB radio compatibility with analogue television broadcast to receiver installations” (Study of compatibility between the CB 27MHz and analogical the Receiving facilities of Television) and that we have spoken in previous paragraphs.

Most of European countries, that allow to the use of the A.M. and the SSB, have the power of RF limited to the levels of the norm 1W A.M. and 4 WPEP in SSB.

If finally the norm is modified, will allow the use of powers to 4W AM and 12Wpep in SSB and being adopted like national norm by many countries of the EC. Today solely Italy, Poland and Spain allow the use of powers of 4W A.M. and 12 W pep in SSB.

All these works we made through the years and are not known by most of the CB users. They are twenty years of ECBF works and collaborations with the ETSI. The people are others, they have changed, by age, exhaustion or discrepancies, is a life law. The council members have renewed some years ago, however that the ECBF continuing participating actively in the technical Committees of the ETSI.

Long live to the ECBF.