Hello Frank!
I don't mind being controversial :-)
My take on all things AMSAT for the past couple of years is:
1) ITAR prevents us from any meaningful exchange of ideas, projects or design with any non-U.S. citizen. While there are ways to do this, they assume very deep pockets and a large full-time staff devoted to satisfying unreasonable, unrealistic and arbitrary government demands.
Feedback from meetings with people who ought to know strongly suggest that while Amateur satellites are not the intent of the ITAR rules (duh!), absolutely no one in a position to help us is willing to go on record with that interpretation.
The practical result is that ITAR has killed the IHU3 since it was dependent on cooperation from a non-NA group. P3E and whatever Eagle was to have been were dependent on the IHU3. The impact is pretty easy to extrapolate.
2) For the same reasons, ITAR prevents us from making a presentation at any AMSAT Symposium with any technical content except perhaps the most general. If there is technical content, we have to be ready to cite chapter and verse of the publicly available source of anything we utter that might be construed as potentially revealing of any level of technology that might possibly be applied to any spacecraft in orbit or supporting such a spacecraft on the ground.
Unless of course we clear the building of all non-U.S. citizens.
Sigh.
73,
Lyle KK7P (who now does terrestrial stuff)