"AbbN" ) writes:
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

No, there was a time when every(?) receiver in Canada did require a "license".
This would have been similar to the license for receivers that they have
in the UK. In both cases, it's not about registering a radio, but about
collecting a levy to pay for pay broadcasting.

I really have no details of this in Canada, other than it did happen decades
ago. The family radio when I was growing up had a license on the inside of
the case, which is where I first learned of the rule in the early seventies
when I became interested in radio. Obviously, the license requirement had
not been in place for some years.

Michael

"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.

-=jd=- wrote:

I'm putting this one in the same pigeon-hole as the poster who told the
story about failing his Ham test because the VE's said he was ugly.

It's the same person.




mike

AbbN wrote:
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.


The guy claiming to have had his radio taken away has been trolling
here for a few weeks. He's also said he failed his Ham test because his
examiners thought he was'nt good looking enough.


The radio license fee in Canada was cancelled in the fifties, but don't
quote me on that as being an exact decade. England had it until '71.
The fee applied to ALL radio receivers. You paid a yearly fee. There
would be the odd government truck going around detecting unlicensed sets.

When commercial radio got a good foothold, the fees, that used to pay
for public broadcasting, were discontinued.

http://www.northernelectric.ca/radio...ot_warning.htm



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The 10 shillings fee remained in force until the end of the World War
II. 1946 saw a doubling of the radio fee, and when black and white
television was first introduced, its fee was 2 pounds (double that of
radio). The license fee for radio was dropped in 1971 and today, only
the color television fee remains, rising periodically, for example from
46 pounds in 1981 to 85 pounds in 1995.

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/L/...licensefee.htm
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AbbN wrote:

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.



I've found that old Canadian radios - say pre-1950s - frequently have a
warning label stuck to the back advising the need to purchase a license
to operate it.

Dave

I'm putting this one in the same pigeon-hole as the poster who told the
story about failing his Ham test because the VE's said he was ugly.

It's the same person.


how about this one? My radio scanner caused Taco Bell's equipment to
malfunction, and caused Taco Bell to close.

Or was it all just a weird coincidence?

I've been to the same Taco Bell before with my scanner operating on VHF lo, VHF
hi, UHF, FM broadcast, and Shortwave frequencies without anything happening.

Airplanes don't like you using a scanner because it interferes with their
equipment and they could crash into the side of a mountain.

Well, today when I went to the same Taco Bell in the afternoon, I had my
scanner on the VHF air frequencies (108 to 136 MHZ)

I left the scaner in my car and went in to eat. I did get my food order, but
before I did, the cashier told me that they were closing for about an hour
because their equipment had malfunctioned starting a few minutes ago and they
weren't able to make any more food until they got it repaired. The time he
mentioned was about the exact sam time that I pulled into Taco Bell's parking
lot with my scanner on the VHF aircraft frequencies.

Did my scanner cause Taco Bell's equipment to malfunction and close down the
entire restaurant for at least a whole hour or was it all just some sort of big
strange weird coincidence?