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Originally Posted by H2O
What's a walkie-talkie? Is that like a cell phone?  |
A walkie- talkie is a two way radios that were transmitters and receivers, so they sometimes had long antennas for extra range. They were named that because you could walkie while you talkied, and they weren't tethered to a large bulky transmitter or receiver, completely portable, I believe they were invented to be used for field communication starting in WWII. I used them while a fire fighter in the 90's. Probably still in use today. Select a channel and push a button to talk, no dial up, but you probably knew that...
Kind of a childish name for it, as I heard a comic once said, "General Patton, here is your walkie talkie, and your gunnie shooty, and some foodie eaty".