UK Product - UK Warranty

When you buy ANY new transceiver from Belmont Communications Ltd, you are guaranteed to be receiving a product which has been designed for the UK market, is type approved for the UK market, and is sourced through officially recognised manufacturer routes to market.  The manufacturers warranty which comes with all our new products is valid here in the UK and this gives real piece of mind to the consumer.

BEWARE:  Many UK radio dealers will NOT give you this pledge!!

There are a number of issues which arise from buying "cheaper" imported goods from other suppliers who are not offering you a UK product:

1.  In the event of a problem arising with a transceiver as a fault in manufacture, the warranty will probably NOT be valid in the UK.  If the equipment is designed for, and sourced in a foreign country, then that is where the warranty will be applicable.  Long after any warranty has expired, you may still find it difficult to obtain servicing and spare parts from official dealers, because the serial number of a transceiver is used to obtain spare parts and this number identifies the unit as being from foreign shores.

2.  The transceiver specification may be very different from that of a UK model.  There are a host of transceivers out there which have a completely different "set-up" to those which are made for the UK market.  For example: An American marine transceiver may have the same name as its UK equivalent (eg. Icom M1V), but it will not operate on all the UK marine channels.  By the same token, an A/V Receiver (such as the Icom IC-R3) will not decode the UK television transmissions successfully as it has not been made to deal with the UK frequency spectrum.

3.  Type Approval.  All radio equipment which is made for the UK must be "type approved" for this market.  This approval involves several facets including electrical safety and transmitter / receiver performance.  Equipment which is not designed for, or sourced from the EU will not be type approved for use in the UK, and can actually be confiscated by the DTI since it is illegal to operate such equipment here in the UK.