as the station finally reached India I want to tell the way we did it. I gave it to a friend that traveled to India by plane. But before ...
I was searching a couple of things that are allowed to be exported from Germany and imported to India. As it was a gift with a limited value this was not a problem with the official authorities. I only had some doubts if they trust my story. It's forbidden to ship military things or devices that could be used to either disturb other communications or listen to them. That was one concern because antennas are involved. Also communication device seemed to be critical. So I added a lot of material to show what it is made for. I also added several copies of the documents I was supposed to fill out when sending it as a parcel.
Second issue was that it was transported by plane. I removed some screws, so that everybody could have a look into the device. Just in case the x ray scanner did not look through that.
The funny thing was that my friends bag was marked with some chalk when he got it. He removed the chalk before going through the final check point. It seems this solved the remaining questions
. So in the end, I have no glue if the documents would have been accepted or not.
I was searching a couple of things that are allowed to be exported from Germany and imported to India. As it was a gift with a limited value this was not a problem with the official authorities. I only had some doubts if they trust my story. It's forbidden to ship military things or devices that could be used to either disturb other communications or listen to them. That was one concern because antennas are involved. Also communication device seemed to be critical. So I added a lot of material to show what it is made for. I also added several copies of the documents I was supposed to fill out when sending it as a parcel.
Second issue was that it was transported by plane. I removed some screws, so that everybody could have a look into the device. Just in case the x ray scanner did not look through that.
The funny thing was that my friends bag was marked with some chalk when he got it. He removed the chalk before going through the final check point. It seems this solved the remaining questions
. So in the end, I have no glue if the documents would have been accepted or not.
Supporting the first station in India 1974
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