"dxAce" wrote in message
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SR wrote:

I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

You might want to check with the Smithsonian, in Washington, DC.



Didn't the government discourage use of SW radios during WWII? I seem to
remember reading where there was some mandate to remove SW reception
capabilities from radios during that time?

Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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SR wrote:

I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

You might want to check with the Smithsonian, in Washington, DC.


Didn't the government discourage use of SW radios during WWII? I seem to
remember reading where there was some mandate to remove SW reception
capabilities from radios during that time?

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

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce wrote:

Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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SR wrote:

I was wondering if durring WW2, did people record audio broadcast on
shortwave and if they, what are these recording called and where could I
hear them at?

You might want to check with the Smithsonian, in Washington, DC.


Didn't the government discourage use of SW radios during WWII? I seem to
remember reading where there was some mandate to remove SW reception
capabilities from radios during that time?

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

dxAce
Michigan
USA


This would make sense to me, too. There were few if any radios made for
the consumer during the war - all industry was given over to "war work"
for the "duration". But hundreds of thousands of people already had
consoles and even some portables in their homes with SW capabilities,
and I know of no restriction - and it would have been unenforcable
anyway - that that government made on listening to foreign broadcasts
during that time.

Tony

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

Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

Didn't the government discourage use of SW radios during WWII? I seem to
remember reading where there was some mandate to remove SW reception
capabilities from radios during that time?

Amateur radio was not allowed during the war. SW transceivers were
confiscated from 'suspicious' citizens, particularly those of German and
Japanese ancestry. The government used radio direction finding aircraft
to locate the source of clandestine SW transmissions. I heard a story
from a local veteran about a military plane flying over the area looking
for a transmitter. A few days later they found the person who was a
German sympathizer. I imagine he spent the rest of the war in a prison
camp.


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