> Interesting balloon story deleted.
> >Excuse the bandwith, but I wanted to tell the whole story.
>
> That sucks, but if you convinced Rockwell that you needed 10,000 GPS units,
> somebody would have got the answers for you. Or if you were willing to pay
> 100,000 dollars for one GPS unit, I'm sure they would have helped then
> also. That's what stinks.

It unclear you could have been helped at all on this issue.  There are
regulations which constrain the operation of GPS receivers such that they
can't be plugged into a missle by "unfriendly" parties.  If receivers operate
in a certain realm (that is, high dynamics or high altitude) a manufacturer
will likely find it very difficult to obtain an export license for their
civilian product.

You can now return to your regularly scheduled vendor bashing..

louie