Another dive into a bygone time - Radio Telephones! Well, not really 'telephones' but definitely radios. It was a different time. Enjoy!
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I still have a set of them Wilson's too….
my friends father and scoutmaster had one of these radio phones. we wouild prank people from the woods . we thought we were so clever.
What distinguishes that as a radio telephone as opposed to any other radio transceiver? Was there a subscription service to place calls with using this radio?
I had my GE bag-o-phone in my rv with a radio shack scanner base station antenna cut for cellular on the roof. It never dropped a call.
Thank you Fran!💚
History of the radio phone
Hey Fran. Love your walk throughs on stuff. I used to service the VHF mobile phone stuff in the early 80's, The lettered channels or numbered channels were the few you get through on, and they were operator dialed. The poor equipment back then the operators had no confirmation on their dialing, So I had to design and build a display unit to show customers the miss dialed number, when customers complained they missed calls. It was not the phone fail, it was operator fail. The important people needed to carry a pager to receive calls for reliability. The mobile phone was then used to call back. Cell phone was a great new thing, but the compressed digital breakup sound still makes mobile phone second quality sound to a real land line. Keep on doing your thing Fran. And good luck.
Rubber duckie antenna.
Looks more like an early 80s police radio big chungus
It's funny how they used to call that a radiotelephone. It's actually a CB radio. It has crystals in it that allow a specific frequency however when it was updated those crystals were standardized frequencies for citizen band radio with 40 channels
violet high frequency 🤔
funny how older things were big & bulky. all electronics. now alien made 👽 nano small millions of transistors in a postage stamp chip. one emp ⚡& done. or backdoor surprise 🤔 i miss tubes
I am a licensed ham (advanced class from ages ago) but not active any more. I just don't like where ham radio has gone (to the dogs if you ask me)! But this brought back memories, from a time when radios did not have memories, just crystals instead!! LOL….Thank God for Phase Locked Loop Frequency Synthesis!! BTW, the only ham radio I still have is an old Radio Shack HTX-202 HT!! It still works but I lost most of the extra accessories.
This radio is set up similar to my uncles (Silent Key 2017) Drake Marker-Luxury. The first two or three channels are 2 Meter ham repeater frequencies, the last ones are local Police/Fire crystals in the RX only position. He had Cook County Illinois Sheriff PD @ 155.535 Mhz (now digital, encrypted 800 Mhz) and the local FD frequency 154.370 Mhz (still in use to this day).