I've been involved with importing and exporting electronic goods including Rb and OCXO from the US for more years than I care to remember. Unless things have been tightened up radically recently, all that was required on most of these items is an End User Statement - i.e. a record of where the goods are going to be finally used.
In the good old days, the guideline used to be anything with a stability of 1E-9 per day or better needed an Export Licence! If coming from another country, then local rules apply, although any members of NATO would typically be utilising US rules for restricted items. Rob K -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr Bruce Griffiths Sent: 28 May 2007 03:47 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP E1938 oscillator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 5/27/2007 16:10:46 Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> Technical Notes: >> 1. >> A resolution of n bit corresponds to a quantization of 2n levels. >> > > >> Random snippet from Supplement No1 to Part 774. >> > > >> Bruce >> > > > Hi Bruce, > > I have yet to figure it out too. That's why we have all these lawyers > here in the US. What's even worse: if you give (well meant) advice, > and the person get's into trouble, they can come after you :( > > But I think in spirit the export controls mean: anything that is of > technical value, especially if it can be used militarily, needs to be > under very close control of the government. > > Then again most Western Countries are free of most export restrictions. > > bye, > Said > Said As far as I have been able to ascertain the list of export controlled items is virtually identical for most western countries and Russia. There are some slight variations (mainly additions) between countries. No doubt (for Russia at least) the country list classifications differ. I stumbled over the local NZ list of export controlled items, as usual purely by accident, when searching for something somewhat unrelated (External cavity diode lasers). As far as I can tell by perusing the complete CCL list (US version) neither the E1938A nor any of its component parts is a controlled item. It would take a creative interpretation by an incompetent lawyer to apply the section on Atomic frequency standards to the E1938A which is not by any stretch of the imagination an Atomic frequency standard. It is not capable of being space qualified without substantial redesign nor is it capable by design of achieving a drift of 1E-11 or less per month. Since the US has no jurisdiction here I can give well intentioned advice without worrying about prosecution (as long as I don't visit the US at least). Bruce _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
