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Bazooka Joe is a comic strip character featured on small comics included in individually wrapped pieces of Bazooka bubble gum. He wears a black eyepatch, lending him a distinctive appearance. He is one of the more recognizable American advertising characters of the 20th century, due to worldwide distribution, and one of the few associated with ...
AN/PRC-6, somewhat battered from use. The AN/PRC-6 is a walkie-talkie (correctly a "Handie Talkie [1]) used by the U.S. military in the late Korean War era through the Vietnam War. Raytheon developed the RT-196/PRC-6 following World War II as a replacement for the SCR-536 "handy-talkie". The AN/PRC-6 operates using wide-band FM on a single ...
Typical walkie-talkies resemble a telephone handset, with a speaker built into one end and a microphone in the other (in some devices the speaker also is used as the microphone) and an antenna mounted on the top of the unit. They are held up to the face to talk. A walkie-talkie is a half-duplex communication device. Multiple walkie-talkies use ...
Today's communication tools have features we could have only dreamed about decades earlier Reach out to friends and family with a walkie talkie designed for younger users. Pexels We’ve come a ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Walkie-talkies" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Family Radio Service ( FRS) is an improved walkie-talkie radio system authorized in the United States since 1996. This personal radio service uses channelized frequencies around 462 and 467 MHz in the ultra high frequency (UHF) band. It does not suffer the interference effects found on citizens' band (CB) at 27 MHz, or the 49 MHz band also ...
A signaller, signalman, colloquially referred to as a radioman or signaleer [1] in the armed forces is a specialist soldier, sailor or airman responsible for military communications. Signallers, a.k.a. Combat Signallers or signalmen or women, are commonly employed as radio or telephone operators, relaying messages for field commanders at the ...
Donald Lewes Hings, CM MBE (November 6, 1907 – February 25, 2004) was a Canadian inventor, born in Leicester, England. In 1937 [1] he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie". While Hings was filing a U.S. patent for the packset in Spokane ...