[Milsurplus] NESTOR: AN/PRC-77 with TSEC/KY-38

[Dave Merrill]

You're probably right.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 7:57 PM Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> what about if you do a clear (PT) call to establish the QSO, switch to
> cypher (CT) and back to clear at the end for legal ID? also, can't see this
> happening being wide band FM on a couple PRC-77 being anything beyond local
> use on 51.0 as a simple demo.
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
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> Ray, unless I'm mistaken, FCC regs do not permit encrypted transmissions
> on the amateur bands.
>
> Dave N9ZC
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 2:02 PM Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
>
> NSA has a KY-38 or two at the museum, think they may also have a KY-8
> thinking that may be the box that went with the VRC-12. May be worth a trip
> over to the museum next time in town to take a look. Would be a lot of fun
> to try setting up a QSO between a couple radios running first generation
> NESTOR technology, think all that sort of stuff is no longer considered
> secure or classified now, don’t know about the KY-57 VINSON but think last
> I saw anything about that they say its also no longer classified too.
>
> Think the appeal of the NESTOR box is that it appears to use a paper or
> punched load card or something like that and did not require a dedicated
> load tool like later systems.
>
>
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
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