"Ron in Radio Heaven" wrote in message
...
ian field wrote:
Were those the days when you had to show proof of a permit from the
Postmaster General before you could purchase anything that might
conceivably be used in the construction of a radio set?


That must have been in the UK or OZ,
not in the US, the Post Office has nothing
to do with radio here.

Ron


In the British isles during WW2 there were restrictions on radio equipment
(I think transmitters of any kind were banned altogether), during WW1 the
restrictions were extremely harsh! I think it may even have been possible to
get executed as a spy for having a radio. The draconian restrictions
persisted quite a long time after the second war.

At the moment - not having much luck googling for info on the restrictions
that existed then, what little I've read came from Practical Wireless 75
year celebration historic reprints.