APX Bring APX to another country -legal?

[prcguy]

Many countries will not allow a police type radio into their country. If you can get a reciprocal amateur license and have an amateur band only radio its usually not a problem, but no reciprocal license and a wide band radio, its not getting in. And you would want to fill out an ATA carnet used for temporary import of certain goods without paying import taxes, to be signed off when you leave their country with the item. I've had to travel with radios for work to other countries and have also had the USAF haul some equipment into another country for us which included radios and a marine band repeater, but that bypassed the usual paperwork.

 

[dryfb]

After I acquired my personal NX200 portable, I carried it in all weather conditions as well. Same thing. The radio ever complained. I never had any issues. The LCD would get really slow when it was really cold.

Probably a little off topic of the OP but my NX300 and 210 also suffer a sllooooww display here in the midwest, otherwise no issues in the cold, lithium-ion batteries are holding up great in below freezing and single digits.

 

[mmckenna]

And you would want to fill out an ATA carnet used for temporary import of certain goods without paying import taxes, to be signed off when you leave their country with the item.

This joggled the memory of me filling out paperwork to get a couple of Codan radios that had AES256 imported into the country from Australia.

I can imagine that an APX with AES256 capability (actually in use or not) would raise some red flags with some countries.

Pretty sure there was some threat about a guy with a funny accent, a funny hat, with a bushy mustache, riding a kangaroo, that would haul me off to some upside down jail somewhere…..

 

[pb_lonny]

This joggled the memory of me filling out paperwork to get a couple of Codan radios that had AES256 imported into the country from Australia.

I can imagine that an APX with AES256 capability (actually in use or not) would raise some red flags with some countries.

Pretty sure there was some threat about a guy with a funny accent, a funny hat, with a bushy mustache, riding a kangaroo, that would haul me off to some upside down jail somewhere…..

You mean right way up jail

 

[kayn1n32008]

Probably a little off topic of the OP but my NX300 and 210 also suffer a sllooooww display here in the midwest, otherwise no issues in the cold, lithium-ion batteries are holding up great in below freezing and single digits.

Pretty common for LCD displays. I don't think I've had a radio that didn't get slow in the cold.

 

[kayn1n32008]

Not sure what the huge deal with AES256 is. The damn algorithm wasn't even designed by the US. Sure NIST named it as the DES replacement, but, damn, you can buy CCR radios that have AES256, maybe not imemented as well as say a UCM in a XTS or XTL radio, but I can communicate between Motrola DMR radios and Anytone radios, using AES256.

EVERY XPR7550 and Europe and Asian versions of it, have the capability to use AES256. Just a matter of the IED.

This joggled the memory of me filling out paperwork to get a couple of Codan radios that had AES256 imported into the country from Australia.

I can imagine that an APX with AES256 capability (actually in use or not) would raise some red flags with some countries.

Pretty sure there was some threat about a guy with a funny accent, a funny hat, with a bushy mustache, riding a kangaroo, that would haul me off to some upside down jail somewhere…..

 

[prcguy]

Something to consider is if the radio was ever owned by the US military. Shipping any ex US military electronics outside the US without an export license involving the US dept of defense is a serious crime. This covers basically all US military electronics including a lowly PRC-25 from the Vietnam war. Some Motorola radios like the PRC-153 designated XTS-2500 or the SRX-2200 designated APX-6000 were US military contract radios and are considered the same as munitions when shipping outside the US. The question is do the same rules apply if you are simply traveling outside the US with a US mil surplus radio and intend to return with it.