[wa2ise]

My father knew an American born Japanese guy back in WW2. They lived in New York City (they didn't round up the Japanese there like they did on the West coast).  Seems he was required to disable the SW feature in his radio, so my father shorted the osc coils.  But the local army inspector(?) guy said that that wasn't enough, that the coiuls had to be removed.  So my father did that, and kept the coils.  After the war was over, my father piad his friend a visit, bringing the coils with him, to restore the radio.  But the friend was still leery of the whole thing, and declined, at least for some time.