[Premium-Rx] Microdyne 1100-AR

[Gary Geissinger]

Here at work we have issues with Microdyne receivers as well.  For
reasons that escape me, in our case they have been deemed sensitive
spacecraft telemetry items and are therefore ITAR controlled.  I have
talked to other aerospace contractors who don't seem to have this
limitation with Microdyne receivers.  It's kind of funny since I have
two of them at home that I bought at swapfests.

We used to joke about all this during the cold war.  The joke revolved
around sending the Soviets some of the technology we are forced to use
instead of sensitive or controlled items.  For example we could have set
the Russian space program back 20 years by shipping them the PDP-11/84
computer we were forced to use for automatic testing.

Gary WA0SPM
Gary A.Geissinger
Chief Electrical Engineer, Technical Fellow
DigitalGlobe Incorporated

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[mailto:premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Terry O'
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:38 AM
To: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Microdyne 1100-AR

I don't how the classified/declassified system works at the government 
institution level.  At the corporate level, there are many expensive 
steps to declassification.  A company like DRS won't go through these 
steps unless a customer reimburses them so the radio can be sold as 
declassified.  Since many of these radios are produced in small 
quantities for narrow markets (compared to say, an iPod), most of them 
never escape classified status.

This is the main reason why I cannot post more than fragments of manuals

for most WJ and CEI radios on my website, even fifty year old designs 
with vacuum tubes.  DRS management does not want to risk running afoul 
of classified restrictions unless the radio has clearly been 
declassified.  And I, obviously, do not want to run afoul of DRS
management.

Terry O'
http://watkins-johnson.terryo.org




On 3/18/2010 3:03 AM, GandalfG8 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 18/03/2010 01:42:45 GMT Standard Time,
> watkins-johnson at terryo.org writes:
> I was hoping to latch onto a few of these  at my college through a
> federal surplus program.  Unfortunately the  federal agency declared
them
> "HIGH RISK" and says they should not be  released to the public.
>
> ------------------
> I wonder sometimes how they dream up these  classifications on gear
that's
> getting on for 40 years old, especially  when a Winradio 315, as just
one
> example, occupies a fraction of the space and  is available to anyone.
>
> The UK Export Control Order 2008 is another fine example, in one
instance
> there were reports of some "job's worth" requiring copious  paperwork
before
> allowing shipment of a spare part for a 60 year old  Landrover.
>
> Just to add to the sense of the ridiculous, a few days ago a very nice
> looking WJ 8615P and 9205 Signal Monitor combination, both with
manuals, was
> sold on EbayUK:-)
>
> regards
>
> Nigel
> GM8PZR
>

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