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Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by US public safety officials and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [1]
A two-way radio is a radio transceiver (a radio that can both transmit and receive radio waves ), which is used for bidirectional person-to-person voice communication with other users with similar radios, [1] in contrast to a broadcast receiver, which only receives transmissions. Two-way radios usually use a half-duplex communication channel ...
No voice transmissions are permitted. It has six channels in the 27 MHz band. Five are unused 10 kHz CB assignments between channels 3–4, 7–8, 11–12, 15–16 and 19–20, and the sixth is shared with Channel 23. R/C transmitters may use up to 4 watts on the first five channels and 25 watts on the last, 27.255 MHz.
Quindar tones. Quindar tones, most often referred to as the "beeps" that were heard during the American Apollo space missions, 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 simulate the ...
Talkie Walkie is the third studio album by French electronic music duo Air, released on 26 January 2004 by Virgin Records. "Alone in Kyoto" was included on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Lost in Translation , and "Run" was used in both the Veronica Mars episode " Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner " and the 2004 French film Lila Says .
In the United States, the Multi-Use Radio Service ( MURS) is a licensed by rule (i.e. under part 95, subpart J, of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations [1]) two-way radio service similar to the Citizens band (CB). Established by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in the fall of 2000, MURS created a radio service allowing for licensed ...
Walkie-talkie. Recreational, toy and amateur radio walkie-talkies. Assorted two-way FRS and GMRS walkie talkies with hand mic. A walkie-talkie, more formally known as a handheld transceiver ( HT ), is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald Hings, radio ...
20 Fenchurch Street is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed " The Walkie-Talkie " because of its distinctive shape, said to resemble a walkie-talkie handset. [4] Construction was completed in spring 2014, and the three ...