Subj : Re: 2m discussion and tra
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Tue Apr 23 2019 11:41:00

-=> Mike Powell wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

 > 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. :-)

 MP> I got my pair for christmas one year.  One was larger than the other
 MP> and also had an AM radio.  I got more use out of that than anything.
 MP> :)  We tested them and it seemed like we were able to get somewhere
 MP> between 1/4 and 1/2 mile away from each other before they quit picking
 MP> anything up.

Yeah - we couldn't use them over the hills very well, but if one of
us was ON a hill we could really reach out! :-)

 MP> I used them more for spying on my sisters & their friends than I did to
 MP> actually communicate with anyone else.  They were not near as
 MP> interesting as I imagined them to be. :)

LOL - such is the case with 'child technology,' eh? :-)

Remember the little morse code generators? Well, a button that would
generate a tone and the morse code alphabet was listed on a sticker
on the unit most of the time.

Never had one with an AM radio, but I did have a little AM radio
'backpack' for my Six Million Dollar Man action figure! That was
cool!





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