[Milsurplus] Walkie-Talkie inventor of the name?? Perhaps it was.....

[J. Forster]

John Jewkes wrote:

> ...   Frank told Joe: "Walk over there and I will talk
> to you. Move your antenna around and when my signal is loudest, take
> a compass reading." When discussing this with their father later in the
> story, they exclaimed they had learned many things using their 'Walkie-
> Talkies'. When these short stories later became the 'Hardy Boys' book
> series, no mention of the RDF episode was ever seen again, of course, it may
> have sounded like treason to give potential enemies of America RDF
> lessons in a child's Detective novel ;-).
> 73 de John W6HNC

I doubt that DF was anything like a secret at the start of WW II.  The books in
the series 'Radio Boys' had DF well before the war. I looked at a copy and there
is no copyright or publication date but I would judge they were written in the
very early part of the 20th century. Spark transmitters were used and mobile
operation was from a launch or with the gear carried ashore. Each ham had his
own 'wavelength'.

-John

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