> At 10:31 PM 7/3/01 -0300, Alexandre Domingos F. Souza wrote:
> > >I don't think it was the FCC... it might have been customs or the IRS,
> > >shutting them down for designing products intended for "surrepitous
use" or
> > >something... I am, of course, referring to the Ramsey Electronics
fiasco.
> >
> >         What happened to Ramsey?
>
> It was the FCC.
> They were selling bugging devices in kit form.
> Granted they were the world's crappiest bugs, but that's what they were.
> The FCC stepped in and said "no more".
>
> They are doing enforcement these days.
>
> --
> Dave's Engineering Page: http://www.dvanhorn.org

I have bought some stuff from Ramsey, and their catalog has an explanation
from their side. The products that they were forced to stop selling were
kits (what self-respecting James Bond is going to build a bug from a kit!)
for small FM transmitters that transmit to an ordinary FM radio. Not
particularly small, not particularly low in power consumption. In other
words, from Ramsey's point of view: not bugs! They were mostly sold to
experimenters and teachers and electronics club moderators.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

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