[Boatanchors] Legal To Sell Or Not?

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 12:10 AM 8/14/2012, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
>I just finished 'watching' a program on television that showed a pawn shop
>owner purchasing a WW2 portable communications set. Possibly used by "Coast
>Watchers" or spies for the Americans or British agents.
>
>It received and sent Morse Code. I assume it was xtal controlled. Since it
>was used by the military, would it not be illegal for civilians to send CW
>with it nowadays?

Saw the same show.  It was a TG-5 portable field telegraph terminal, which
requires stringing wires to the next station.  The Pawn shop owner, normally
very knowledgeable about artifacts,  looked at the current markings and
thought it was a radio dial, and said it was a spy radio. :-[  He was way off
on that one!

So the "transmitter legality" question is moot. :-)

Perry   w8au