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Re: FH radios

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NODE 269818f4Re: FH radios
At 05:06 PM 12/25/95 -0500, you wrote:

>	There is certainly little additional cost to building a
>trully secure digital cordless phone given the dense ASIC technology
>that is standard in this kind of product - but someone has to
>persuade the manufacturers that there is a real need and find a way
>to allow them to export the product.
>
>						Dave Emery  N1PRE

Is there actually a restriction on the export of really-fast
frequency-hopping radios, even those (like cordless phones) which have no
clear military value?
NODE 6bee162eRe: FH radios
jim bell wrote:

| Is there actually a restriction on the export of really-fast
| frequency-hopping radios, even those (like cordless phones) which have no
| clear military value?

Yes.  The ITARs restrict the export of any radio which hops faster
than one frequency per second.  (Or ten seconds if it hops between
more than 8 bands.)  See ITAR XIII.b.1.iii.C 
(ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/export/itar.in.full)

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