Re: Walkie-talkies during World War II?

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:52:03 -0700, "Bruce Atchison - author"
<batchison@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Greetings;
>
>I remember on some Hogan's Heros episodes that they used walkie-talkies.
>Were there really such transceivers back then?  Vacuum tube radios were
>rather large and drained batteries fast.  Does anybody know if people had
>such ****table radios back in the forties?  I did see an article once
about a
>tiny one tube transmitter but it only could send morse code and had a
>limited range.
 
There were certainly battery-powered radios in World War II.  The
range of the handheld ones was quite limited, but they existed.
Wikipedia has a summary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkie_talkie


Dav Vandenbroucke
davanden at cox dot net