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Its called controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPAs), which unfortunately is an ITAR restricted thing because of insane paperwork required, so no one wants t
by minetest2048 3y ago
Its called controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPAs), which unfortunately is an ITAR restricted thing because of insane paperwork required, so no one wants to build it for civilian receivers. Which is stupid because beamforming (or null-steering) algorithms are not that difficult to implement, and so we already have Chinese and Iranian receivers with CRPAs.
So PNT National Advisory Board is trying to convince US government to stop putting CRPAs under ITAR: https://www.gps.gov/governance/advisory/meetings/2023-05/murphy.pdf https://www.gps.gov/governance/advisory/meetings/2023-05/mur...
- mikewarot 3y agoI figured there was going to be some ITAR thing if I kept going with the brainstorm.... and you confirmed my hunch. There are so many things these days which are almost trivial to build and somehow fall under ITAR.