"NotMe" wrote in message
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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?

You can see something similar if you walk into your local auto parts
store. Only, most people there won't be wearing coats and ties, and the
only hats you'll see will be baseball caps. Oh well, those were the days...

--

Shawn K
www.thisoldradio.com

"Shawn K" wrote in message
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You can see something similar if you walk into your local auto parts
store. Only, most people there won't be wearing coats and ties, and the
only hats you'll see will be baseball caps. Oh well, those were the
days...

Type approvals etc etc..........

Give it time - the auto parts stores will go the same way!

"Ron in Radio Heaven" wrote in message
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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.

"NotMe" wrote in message
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What I meant by "Those were the days" was how great that must have been
"back then" when you could walk into a store and have radio parts and pieces
to look through, radios on display and books to browse. No cell phones or
satellite TV to see. Radio was the latest and greatest. Not like now.
It's all about high definition TV, satellite and surround sound, and cell
phones.

From an radio hobbyist point of view, those were the days. I don't know
about spies and government regulations.

"NotMe" wrote in message
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What I meant by "Those were the days" was how great that must have been
"back then" when you could walk into a store and have radio parts and pieces
to look through, radios on display and books to browse. No cell phones or
satellite TV to see. Radio was the latest and greatest. Not like now.
It's all about high definition TV, satellite and surround sound, and cell
phones.

From an radio hobbyist point of view, those were the days. I don't know
about spies and government regulations.

"NotMe" wrote in message
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"NotMe" wrote in message
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What I meant by "Those were the days" was how great that must have been
"back then" when you could walk into a store and have radio parts and
pieces to look through, radios on display and books to browse. No cell
phones or satellite TV to see. Radio was the latest and greatest. Not
like now. It's all about high definition TV, satellite and surround sound,
and cell phones.

In those days when old folk thought that if you switched on a light with no
bulb in the socket, that electricity would fill the room like gas and kill
them, there would have been many people who felt the same way about wireless
as you do about HDTV & mobile phones.

Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my mother's
hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she didn't carry spares
because they would magnetize everything in her purse!

--
Jim Mueller

To get my real email address, replace wrongname with eportiz. Then replace
nospam with sacbeemail.

"ian field" wrote in message
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"NotMe" wrote in message
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"NotMe" wrote in message
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What I meant by "Those were the days" was how great that must have been
"back then" when you could walk into a store and have radio parts and
pieces to look through, radios on display and books to browse. No cell
phones or satellite TV to see. Radio was the latest and greatest. Not
like now. It's all about high definition TV, satellite and surround
sound, and cell phones.

In those days when old folk thought that if you switched on a light with
no bulb in the socket, that electricity would fill the room like gas and
kill them, there would have been many people who felt the same way about
wireless as you do about HDTV & mobile phones.

"Jim Mueller" wrote in
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Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my
mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she
didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in
her purse!

Including her little Kleenex packet?

And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that this
wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her purse,
including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.)