MAX2850/2851 4x4. Also, large radar stuff is more nuanced than "just some fw tweaks" as you claim. Same as Facebook is not just some PHP scripts...
replyI used to work radar systems. The point being that the hardware is fully capable. The software side is quite well understood at this point. There will be plenty of repos floating around in a year to turn this into an airborne drone SAR or whatever. Functional range resolution will be around 4m but that's plenty for most shenanigans.
replyAt a functional range resolution of 4M would it even qualify as violating ITAR even if it was tweaked to do so?
reply> Also, the "can't radar, plz don't ITAR" is horseshit.
replyMy assumption is that they're trying to avoid crossing a legal line, as opposed to being personally invested in the idea of preventing radar use by a determined hobbyist.
ITAR feels a lot like Bernstein v. US all over again. Until very recently, everyone who can do anything that would be covered by ITAR was a giant corporation that likes the moat that regulations create, so it's unthinkable to challenge it. But that is changing, just like cryptography was in the early 90s.
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