[Milsurplus] Dating the term "Walkie Talkie"

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:59:17 -0500

Is this in response to Nextel's attempt to copyright the term
"Walkie-Talkie"?

Joe

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I see in ELECTRONICS magazine, March 1941, page 80, a small photo of a =
US
Army trooper, in one of those pre-war wide-brimmed cloth field hats, and
wearing a SCR-195/ BC-322 ( i assume because of the telephone type =
handset,
instead of BC-222's handmic and headphones ), captioned:

"This portable radio communication outfit used at Fort Ord, California, =
to
keep commander and troops in communication, has been dubbed the 'walkie
talkie'.
Complete station is light enough for one soldier to carry and has a =
range of
5 miles".

My comments: I am still thinking i have seen an earlier appearance of =
this
term, in an official US Army publication, in the late 1930s. ( The =
SCR-194/
195 sets date from about 1938. ) I will keep looking for such reference.
The date of publication of this magazine number is about the same time,
Norman Weed, i think it was, told me he was using a SCR-194 at Ft. Ord =
and
talked to some other soldier also using an SCR-194, but at Ft. Monmouth, =
New
Jersery, on the East Coast USA. That's a pretty good haul for a 2-tube
backpack portable with a whip antenna.
Ft. Ord was a pretty nice base. I lived there for a while as a =
youngster. I
remember the banana-like "ice plant" grown on  slopes,  to secure loose
sandy soil, sliding on them and having my pants stained green; straining =
my
eyes to see surfacing submarines off Monterey bay, the hollow distant
drumming from the machine gun practice ranges, and a climate that was  =
near
perfect. Its own self contained and self-complete world.
Of course, that base is all closed now.
Hue Miller
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