[Milsurplus] ABK IFF Puzzle

[J Forster]

The internet is full of this kind of IP theft....  and it IS Intellectual
Property THEFT w/o any question.

There is a web site with pictures of my radios on it, and the file names are
"Johns ....", but the pictures have been retitled to make it appear that the
gear, and extensive high quality photos of a repair process, were in fact done
by another.

Since the photos were taken in the late 1990s, they are copyright, as is the
accompanying text, even though I did not explicitly mark them as such.

So much for honor among hams and hobbiests.

Best,
-John

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Mike Morrow wrote:

> Bruce MacMillan <radio at telus.net> wrote:
>
> >This topic was discussed recently on the arc5 mailing list John. I
> >believe it was purposely marked as a receiver only to mislead the other
> >side.
> >
> >"The SCR-595-A IFF was simply a US Navy ABK Mark III IFF, without any
> >Army nomenclature applied to the RT unit.  The SCR-695-A Mark III/G IFF
> >unit was the BC-966-A.  The nameplates of all of these units bore the
> >description of "RADIO RECEIVER" to mislead the other side.  But the USN
> >ABK units also bear USN component numbers starting with "43" which is
> >the component code for a "receiver-transmitter."  Not too consistent
> >or deceptive!"
>
> The quoted text above comes from one of my recent postings.  It's probably
> best to attribute any direct quotes to the original writer, just in case
> someone wants further information from that source or even wishes to say
> that the information is full of crap. :-)

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