dxAce wrote in message ...


They shut down amateur radio transmitting at the time, however I do not think
that receiving was curtailed.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

I have two issues of that Jan 42 QST. In the center of it, it had a 4
page yellow paper announcement to that effect. I activated the
scanning device here in studio X, and ran off copies of all 4 pages.
These are reduced quality to quicken d/l speeds, but should still be
quite readable. They are really yellow, but I scanned in b/w to also
reduce the file size. This will give an idea of the amateur mindset at
that time. BTW, in some countries, I believe even receiving was
frowned upon. Mainly because the osc stages in the radios could be
used to track the location of the receiver, and theoretically could be
used by the enemy for tracking purposes. But I think that was more in
Europe, than in the U.S. IE: England was pretty strict, and have been
for years. They used to use that osc tracking method to hunt down
receivers that hadn't paid the radio tax, or whatever they
required...Same for TV's I think.

The QST images are in my ISP "briefcase" at :
http://briefcase.wt.net/cgi-perl/Lis...26b32620cf18ea

They are the four files named WW2-??.jpg....MK