I have carried thousands of $$ of test equipment and HF equipment in as carry on and chequed luggage, as recently as 4 months ago. Never an issue.
They will swipe it for Nitrates and then let you go. Your biggest concern is the total wattage of the battery. Check the web site for your carrier and the norm is about 50 watts total capacity. Mike va3mw On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 10:38 PM Al Lorona <alor...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I am sure there are just as many horror stories as "I've never had a > problem" stories. Such as the time I was carrying a small Ten-Tec shortwave > receiver and was detained for almost half an hour while the agent stared > and actually asked me, "Voices come out of this thing?" > > Meanwhile, an alarm blared for several minutes without any response from > TSA whatsoever. Someone could have gained access to the tarmac in that time > and planted a bomb. But the little Ten-Tec was deemed more of a threat. > Be prepared for any response, subject to the whim of the agents. > > Al W6LX > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
