From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 12:14:29 +0800
To: jimbell@pacifier.com (jim bell)
Subject: Re: FH radios
In-Reply-To: <m0tUNYc-0008xnC@pacifier.com>
Message-ID: <199512260358.WAA02279@homeport.org>
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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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