Subj : Re: 2m discussion and tra
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Sun Apr 21 2019 23:09:00

-=> Mike Powell wrote to Holger Granholm <=-

 > Handie talkies were hand-held units, usually running on 30 MHz on
 > internal batteries.

 MP> In the states, we call those walkie talkies, too.  At least we have
 MP> since at least the 1970's when, as a kid, it was something to have a
 MP> pair.  :)

My brothers and I had a pair and come to find out they weren't very
powerful, but if you were close to the truck you could hear them
on Channel 17 on the CB. :-)




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