Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
:

LOL!!!

I have German relatives who were hams before the war - had their
radios confiscated for much the same reason.

Like a German Uboat would ever show up in Lake Michigan. :)


All ham radio licenses were cancelled for the duration of the war. As a
matter of fact, most Americans don't know that you had to have your big
Zenith or RCA console MODIFIED by a radio technician, by force of law, so
you didn't listen to Lord Haw Haw or any of the other German shortwave
transmissions. This applied to Canadians, too, as I have some receipt
pictures on a disk somewhere showing the work had been done. There are
pictures of these receipts and notes inside old radios posted,
occasionally, to alt.binaries.pictures.radio newsgroup. The shortwave
bands had to be disconnected by a technician just to keep the American
public in the dark, isolated from the war.