Important: New Guidelines by Indian Customs for Radio Controllers

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aditya:
If any Transmitter receiver model is already type approved by any fellow modeler in India , can anyone use that approval for his individual import?

anwar:
Please use search ! This has been answered many many times before. Short answer, approval can be re-used, but still need to get import permit for full legality.

http://www.rcindia.org/search2?search=wpc+import+approval

http://www.rcindia.org/rc-outlets-and-resellers/strict-rules-on-parcel-importing-!!!/msg22616/#msg22616

http://www.rcindia.org/rc-outlets-and-resellers/anything-and-everything-hobby-king/msg150630/#msg150630

http://www.rcindia.org/rc-general-topics/airport-customs-issues/msg90960/#msg90960

http://www.rcindia.org/radios-and-receivers/list-of-all-radios-with-wpc-approval-so-far/msg82538/#msg82538

aditya:
Thanks sir..
Import license is a personal document i think ?
Secondly , for importing same Radio again , we need to apply for Import license again or same will do ?

PiyushI:
interesting discussion. I want to say little, yet already mentioned above still writing so newbie can understand easily. Here two different terms are applied:

1) ETA: Equipment Type Approval- This is a Certificate given by (may be some identified laboratories Who deals in Electronics Research) approved agencies. This certificate declares that the said instrument/ equipment emits radio frequency within specified limits announced by WPC, in our cases 2.4Ghz and 30dbm(1W). ETA belongs to an equipment AND not to a person or company/agency.
For simple understanding, I compare ETA as a new automobile Vehicle product that is tobe launched to run on Indian Road, the manufacturer must take approval from some Govt. Agencies (e.g. RTO) that this vehicle is fit for to run on the road. We never exercise this in case of automobile as the manufacturer is also too much interested to obtain such "permission" because of his business interest. While in case of "our" TxRx the foreign manufacturer will not take interest to for ETA because of no extra benefit.

2) De-licensed band or free to use band or 2.4 Ghz Band is free to use- To understand this I want to brief a little.

There is different spectrums http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_spectrum or band of radio frequency in our atmosphere. These different radio frequencies are being used by different people- may be individuals (e.g. Aero/car/ship modelers, Ham radio operators) or private companies (e.g. FM radio channels or TV channels, mobile phone service providers) or government agencies (e.g.police, forest, coast guard, military) and may be there could more user groups. when one (individual or private company) want to use or take advantage of one or more frequency he has to obtain license from WPC (like if i want to drive a car [or any engine driven automobile] i have to obtain license from RTO irrespective of ownership of a car). But one who don't want to transmit radio frequency but only want to receive like TV or Radio receiver are not required to obtain license, like you are co-passenger in a car.

If i recall my memory, there where some year ago some low powered two vehicles were launched in market, if i don't forget Mofa and one model of Luna (and now a days some battery operated mopeds too) where exempted to from licence to drive. 2.4Ghz band is also somehow similar to the exemption of license to use subject to the radiated power or emitting energy.

No one is needed to get license to use 2.4Ghz frequency band subject to limit of radiated power. But the custom's officials asking that, "what is the proof of the equipment falls under the limit prescribed by the WPC?" if you say them 2.4ghz is license free band and any one can use it without license, they will ask for ETA which officially declares that the equipment falls under the limit which was suggested by WPC. Funny thingk is they do not trust certificates like FCC etc already taken by the manufacturer, but trust the certificate given by such agencies which can easily doubted for faithness.

PiyushI:
IMHO (in my humble opinion), better we discuss how one can easily get TxRx without unnecessary hassles. Here, I go with the doubt on lobbying of LHS. Respectfully, i admit that there is always a nice role of LHS for particularly this noble hobby. But when it comes for an import of RxTx, they become silent and never come forward for help. Its clear that the reinforcement of the said law has no overparticular interest of customs officials. But LHS will definitely get benefited. most of LHS had at least once exercised for ETA in past. If these people are really clean, they can come forward to help people in community, how to fill the form etc and rest of the process. over a period of 6 months no LHS participated in discussion.

On other hand, Unfortunately, they are never found with good quality and cheaper priced TxRx in their inventory regularly. I humbly request them to help people in this community, how to process.

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