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His death at age 70 was announced on the show’s official website. “With tremendous sadness, This Old House bids farewell to our friend and longtime landscape contractor, Roger Cook, who passed ...
August 22, 2024 at 11:10 PM. Roger Cook, who was a part of PBS’ iconic This Old House home improvement program for nearly 40 years, died on Aug. 21 following an extended illness. He was 70. Cook ...
Roger Cook. Roger A. Cook (1954 – August 21, 2024) was an American garden and landscape contractor, widely known as the resident landscaping expert on the PBS home renovation program This Old House (1988-2022 ) — as well as Ask This Old House and Inside This Old House. In 2022, Cook and his colleagues received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy.
Al Gross (engineer) Irving " Al " Gross (/ ɡroʊs /; February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, [1] Citizens' Band radio, [2] the telephone pager [2] and the cordless telephone.
Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, ... Roger 10-5 Relay 10-6 Busy 10-7 Out at... 10-8 Clear 10-9 Say again 10-12 Stand by 10-13 Weather report/road report
Quindar tones are the the "beeps" that are heard during the American space missions. During the early days of the space program they were a means by which remote transmitters on Earth were turned on and off so that the capsule communicator (CapCom) could communicate with the crews of the spacecraft. It was a means of in-band signaling to ...
Walkie-talkie. A walkie-talkie, more formally known as a handheld transceiver (HT) or handheld radio, is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald Hings, radio engineer Alfred J. Gross, Henryk Magnuski and engineering teams at Motorola.
Police code. A police code is a brevity code, usually numerical or alphanumerical, used to transmit information between law enforcement over police radio systems in the United States. Examples of police codes include "10 codes" (such as 10-4 for "okay" or "acknowledged"—sometimes written X4 or X-4), signals, incident codes, response codes, or ...