Mediaguy500 ) writes:
actually, this happened many many years ago, not recently.

My family and I were on vacation taking a trip to Canada. I had two radios
with me, my shortwave radio and my scanner. When I found out that my parents
decided to go to Canada also, I was worried about hthem possibly confiscating
my scanner. I didn't worry about the shortwave as I had thought that that was
legal to take into Canada. The shortwave radio covered the AM broadcast band
and some of the international broadcast bands. (not continous). and was the
analog tuning kind with a slide rule dial for a pointer to read the approximate
frequency and a rotary tuning knob.

However, when they checked , they said the scanner was allowed into Canada but
that my shortwave radio was not allowed into Canada.

They told me that radios that tune between 1610 khz and 30 mhz are not allowed
in Canada, and told me that shortwave radios are not legal in Canada and told
me that it is ilegal to listen to the international broadcast bands whilee
you're in Canada.

Sounds like someone wants to give Canada a bad image, so they make up a story
years after the event that doesn't ring true.

Michael

We don't have border agents or border patrol types in Canada, nor have we
ever as far as I know. We do have customs agents. Trust me, I've been around
a long time, and it has never been illegal to listen to shortwave radio in
Canada.

I belive you. As I said before, it has come to light since then that they
weren't really who they said they were, and weren't even Canadian.

However, they claimed to be the Canadian Border Patrol and customs agents. In
other words, the two occupations were one and the same and only one occupation
to them.

However, with the evidence that has come to light since then, they were full
of it.

Sounds like someone wants to give Canada a bad image, so they make up a story
years after the event that doesn't ring true.


well, I certainly didn't mean to give that impression. 1. I didn't make up the
story. It is true.

2. I have been to Canada on vacation and it is a nice place, and the people I
met there are nice.

3. You are probably correct that someone wanted to give Canada a bad image, but
it's not me.

It was certain other U.S. people wanting to give Canada a bad image to me.

which did work for a while after they took my shortwave radio, while I believed
them.

When it camr to light that they weren't really who they said they were, and who
they really were, and where they were really from, the image of Canada to me is
once again good.

Back then, while I had my shortwave radio, I also used to frequently listen to
Radio Canada International.

Not that there was much need for me to, as I pretty much regularly picked up
CFPL-TV channel 10, London, Ontario on my tv.

Not always, but very frequently did, along with other less-frequent tv stations
such as CKCO-TV channel 42. Not sure where that transmitter is located.

And sometime in the past, CKLW-FM.

although the AM "CKLW" always came in good here except on my newest radio that
I have now, which has very very very poor AM reception (sensitivity).

I also regularly got some other Canadian radio stations, but they didn't I.D..
like the U.S. stations. I would wait hours and hours on one frequency for an
official I.D. and never heard one.

I finally gave up and just used their slogan I.D. they announced or the network
thy announced, such as CBC.

By the way, CFPL-TV 10 used to show CBC network programs back when I watched it
years ago.

Todaay, it seems to be an independent station toi me.

Sounds like someone wants to give Canada a bad image, so they make up a story
years after the event that doesn't ring true.


ah, but it is true. I also know that main ham's (the one responsible for most
of it) current call letters.

And using the term "soft evidence" in what I believe is the correct way to use
the term (does prove to other people by exposing the whole situation and
everyone involved with it)., I could expose them . However,

to fully expose them means that I also have to expose innocent people who may
not want their names and adresses printed on the internett. (just their names
and the city where it all happened will expose their adresses t o anyone who
wants to find them) and is probably illegal to do so if they son't want their
names on the internet.

However, not exposing the names of the innocent people also, leaves gaps in my
"proof" that could be said to not be proof since those gaps exist.

Becfause of the legality questions, plus if it were me in their shoes,

I'll have to go with only partially exposing the criminals instead of fully
exposing them, otherwise innocent people might get hurt.

I think that's part of the reason that Dragnet changed the names in their true
stories:

"only the names have been changed in order to protect the innocent".

However, that was back in the 50's and 60's.

today, doing that is considered "fraud" by judges, or at least by one judge,

Hey,

All my SW receivers were bought here. I think you got taken. If it were
illegal, Radio Shack Canada wouldn't be allowed to sell them. See for
yourself:

http://www.radioshack.ca/estore/Cate...g=Radi oShack

When I go to the U.S., I register anything I take over there that may give
me problems coming back, just to prove they came from Canada

Take Care
Abb N


"Pete" wrote in message
news
We don't have border agents or border patrol types in Canada, nor have we
ever as far as I know. We do have customs agents. Trust me, I've been
around
a long time, and it has never been illegal to listen to shortwave radio in
Canada.

"AbbN" wrote in message
...
Hey,

All my SW receivers were bought here. I think you got taken. If it were
illegal, Radio Shack Canada wouldn't be allowed to sell them. See for
yourself:


http://www.radioshack.ca/estore/Cate...g=Radi oShack

When I go to the U.S., I register anything I take over there that may give
me problems coming back, just to prove they came from Canada



The only possible reason for this actually happening that I can think of
would have been a very long time ago, when Canada required a radio license..
but I'm not sure that applied to SW radios, or if it applied to tourists.

"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
...

"AbbN" wrote in message
...
Hey,

All my SW receivers were bought here. I think you got taken. If it were
illegal, Radio Shack Canada wouldn't be allowed to sell them. See for
yourself:



http://www.radioshack.ca/estore/Cate...agenum=1&categ
ory=ShortwaveRadios&catalog=RadioShack

When I go to the U.S., I register anything I take over there that may
give
me problems coming back, just to prove they came from Canada



The only possible reason for this actually happening that I can think of
would have been a very long time ago, when Canada required a radio
license..
but I'm not sure that applied to SW radios, or if it applied to tourists.

B.A.

Read between the lines. This guy's whole story is bogus.

-- Stinger

"Clark Neider" wrote:

I would have expected better from
Canadians. I always knew them to
be a virtuous people. That's the kind
of stunt third world customs agents
would pull.


From what I've seen, most Canadians are. But, of course, there are always
exceptions. Anyway, if you've read the messages from "Mediaguy500" since
then, you'll likely agree the entire story was probably false.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/

(Mediaguy500) wrote in message

They then confiscated my shortwave radio and told me that I would get it back
from their Canadian authorities when I re-enter the U.S.

I would have demanded a reciept.

However, when I re-entered the U.S., I never got it back as I was promised.
even though I tried to both then and afterwards.

Did you get a reciept?

And I never saw that shortwave radio again. And it was a good shortwave radio
that picked up good for that time.

I know Mexico can be picky about bringing radios into that country. So
it's not totally unheard of to have border problems with them...
Back in the 80's when they had the big earthquake in Mexico City, I
was part of a group that was going to go there to operate emergency
stations. It was a long complicated story, and I ended up missing the
trip, although the rest did eventually go. In the beginning, we were
going to take a local TV stations lear jet to M.C. But eventually,
they wouldn't let us due to insurance concerns.
So they had to resked a commercial flight. I ended up not being home
when they finally called a few days later, and missed the flight...
But I distinctly remember certain hassles about bringing the radios
into Mexico. We had to have permits, or whatever...You couldn't just
drag them through customs. According to what we were told, we would
lose them if we didn't have permission. This may well be different
than Canada. Myself, I would have demanded a reciept for the radio, if
it was to be returned later. Nothing on paper? You are pretty much
SOL. It's their word against yours, and you will lose every time. They
live there, and you are just another yankee tourist...Sad, but true.
You won't be seeing that radio again. You may well have been scammed.
At the least, you were a victim of radio law ignorance by the customs
people. I can't see why they would take a SW radio, but not a scanner
which can receive potentially more important and sensitive local
Canadian police, military, aircraft, etc...Doesn't really add up.. MK

Hi,

I've never heard of license for SW receivers. When I was young my parents
and most of my relatives had SW receivers - they were very popular then. In
the mid 60's I use to listen to my parents Zenith Trans Oceanic. You needed
a license for a CB way back then - perhaps that's what you were thinking of.

Take Care
Abb N
VE3003SWL
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

"Brenda Ann Dyer" wrote in message
...

"AbbN" wrote in message
...
Hey,

All my SW receivers were bought here. I think you got taken. If it were
illegal, Radio Shack Canada wouldn't be allowed to sell them. See for
yourself:



http://www.radioshack.ca/estore/Cate...g=Radi oShack

When I go to the U.S., I register anything I take over there that may
give
me problems coming back, just to prove they came from Canada



The only possible reason for this actually happening that I can think of
would have been a very long time ago, when Canada required a radio
license..
but I'm not sure that applied to SW radios, or if it applied to tourists.