[Boatanchors] Legal To Sell Or Not?

[J. Forster]

The thing is clearly labelled Telegraph Set on the ID tag. I guess the
pawn shop guys cannot read.  :)

IMO, they are very cute, but pretty useless. I have a NOS pair. The BA-2s
can be cobbled up from 15x AA batteries, ande stuffed into a replica
battery case..

-John

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> 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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