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

[WA5CAB@cs.com]

John,

You're probably correct, but if you look at most TM 11's, SHIPS, NAVSHIPS, 
AN's and T.O.'s of the War years, they are either Unclassified or RESTRICTED - 
Official Use Only.  Most of this stack of DF Set manuals that I recently got 
access to are classified CONFIDENTIAL, Unregistered.  Which is the equivalent of 
SECRET since the 50's or so.  Today, the maintenance manual on AN/TRD-15/23 
(DF set that used the R-725/URR) is one of those that you can't get to on LOGSA 
unless you have an account.

In a message dated 8/20/2003 7:13:18 PM Central Daylight Time, jfor@quik.com 
writes: 
> >...   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'.
> 

73
Robert Downs - Houston
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