[45939] in Cypherpunks
Re: FH radios
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Mon Dec 25 23:05:41 1995
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 22:58:24 -0500 (EST)
Cc: die@die.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <m0tUNYc-0008xnC@pacifier.com> from "jim bell" at Dec 25, 95 04:47:22 pm
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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