Banyan Vines / USMC

[Ed Carp]

On Thu, 21 Apr 1994, Phil Karn wrote:

> >	The Banyan Vines network was used extensively in Desert 
> >Storm/Shield/Sweep.  Before the network was in place, people were using a 
> >single channel radio relay box called the Hadron.  It was capable of being 
> >used with the KY-57 (crypto) on the PRC-77 (single channel radio), as well as 
> >satcom (PSC-3).
> 
> I've seen the Hadron. It's an impressive, fancy, TEMPESTed, MIL-SPEC
> box. When I opened it up, I found an ordinary, production, amateur
> packet radio TNC (terminal node controller) speaking AX.25.
> 
> Kind of scary when you think about it. :-)
> 
> What would normally cost a ham about $150-$200 probably cost the
> government about $5K each.

Probably a KPC-3  :)