A morse radio (,) which hadn't been used in 40 years

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Upstream Proficiency by Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley.

Could you tell me whether a comma is missing here?

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If they are going to use those other commas they ought to have one there.
 

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Pardon. What other commas? If I'm not mistaken, here we can speak only about the other comma - after 'years'.
I suppose, after 'radio' the comma is necessary because it separates extra information - A Morse radio came in extra handy ...

In my opinion anything else in between should be wrapper in commas.

From your answer I can conclude that they have a choice whether to use commas or not.
 

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They made a basic mistake of putting a comma between the subject and the verb.

They seem to use commas at random places.

I hope you are not using that to improve your English proficiency.

It's a rather long noun phrase, but length does not determine the necessity of commas.
 
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