[Boatanchors] Legal To Sell Or Not?

[DAve Mayfield]

I saw the same thing last night, my wife and I were watching and I 
started laughing when Rick said it was a Wireless set. I backed the show 
up and paused it so I could explain the schematic to her. It was not 
wireless. Rick was way off on that one for sure.

w8au at sssnet.com wrote:
> 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 
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