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Old May 14th 09, 06:58 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Brenda Ann Brenda Ann is offline
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Default Holy Grundig 650, Batman!


"Bushcraftgregg" wrote in message
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On May 12, 9:34 pm, wrote:
Limeyland in World War Two.Everybody who owned AM/FM/Shortwave Radios
(except govt people) had to have the Shortwave function disabled.
cuhulin


Really? I didn't know that. Anyone else, is this fact?

Don't know about the UK. I do know that they did it in the US during the
war. There have been varying accounts of to whom it was done. Some accounts
say only expatriots of enemy countries, some say all SW radios had to be
modified. I've personally had to rebuild several of the pre-war SW radios
that had been disabled on SW (some were really nasty hack jobs...
bandswitches removed or wired around, coils removed, components broken,
etc.).