[Lowfer] A Weapon of Mass Destruction? I thought it was a radio!

[Ed Phillips]

    Quite a receiver - 12 bits to 500 MHz!  As for the note, sounds like 
the UK equivalent of our stupid ITAR!!!!

Ed

Clive S Carver wrote:

>Following my lack of copying the SAQ 17.2 kHz transmission on 
>Christmas Eve (due to my rather inefficient aerial on VLF, not the 
>SDR-IQ) I looked at what others had used; especially as the 
>transmission had been received in the USA and I live in North Wales, UK, 
>which is considerably closer.
>
>Noting what aerials others had used and subsequent, as usual Googling got
>Me going off at a tangent. I ended up on the web-site of a UK manufacturer
>of USB Connected Software Defined Digital Radio Systems which are intended
>for professional/commercial and perhaps defence use. 
>One of their models, priced at GBP 3,695 (that's around US$7,400) had
>a frequency range of 750 Hz to 500 MHz and a note saying that an
>Export Licence was required for purchasers outside UK, Europe & USA. 
>I quote from the reason for this:- "Due to United Kingdom, European
>Union and United Nations regulations concerning Weapons of Mass Destruction
>(WMD) for certain of our products..............."
>
>Ooooops! Am I safe to own a SDR-IQ - it would seem that it's not just 
>things which go BANG which fall into these rules!!
>
>For anyone else who wants a smile, this is the link:- 
>http://www.hunt-rtg.com/readytogo/rtg003.htm
>
>Think I will stick with my SDR-IQ, but I must get a better aerial.
>
>Seasons Greetings
>Clive
>GW4EYO
>