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Midland Radio offers four lines of two-way radios: X-Talker, LXT, GXT and XT511; MicroMobile. High-Powered GMRS Radios that can communicate with any Midland Radio Two-Way Radio. Midland Radio is the official communication sponsor of Jeep Jamboree, which now is in a transition to switch from CB to MicroMobile Radios. [2] CB Radios
Motorola TA288 PMR446 licence-free radio Motorola TLKR T40 radio tuned to PMR channel 1. PMR446 (Private Mobile Radio, 446 MHz) is a licence-exempt service or UHF CB in the UHF radio frequency band, as personal radio service or citizens band radio, and is available for business and personal use in most countries throughout the European Union, [1] Malaysia, [2] and Singapore.
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.
The SCR-536 is often considered the first of modern hand-held, self-contained, "handie talkie" transceivers (two-way radios). It was developed in 1940 by a team led by Don Mitchell, chief engineer for Galvin Manufacturing (now Motorola Solutions) and was the first true hand-held unit to see widespread use. [1]
A 1939 company catalog bore the names Radio Wire Television Co. Inc. and "Lafayette Radio Corporation". In 1948, the company issued a catalog under the name “Lafayette-Concord” and called itself the “world’s largest radio supply organization”. In 1952, a catalog was issued using only the Lafayette name. [1]
Realistic was a private label consumer electronics brand produced by RadioShack.Initially only a home audio equipment brand, its product line expanded to include CB radios, walkie-talkies, and video camcorders by the 1980s.
Donald Lewes Hings, CM MBE (November 6, 1907 – February 25, 2004) was a British-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".
The AN/PRC-77 entered service in 1968 during the Vietnam War as an upgrade to the earlier AN/PRC-25.It differs from its predecessor mainly in that the PRC-77's final power amplifier stage is made with a transistor, eliminating the only vacuum tube in the PRC-25, as well as the DC-DC voltage converter used to create the high plate voltage for the tube from the 15 V battery.