Comments on: FM Walkie-Talkie (Aug, 1950) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/09/fm-walkie-talkie/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Tom http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/09/fm-walkie-talkie/comment-page-1/#comment-1062714 Tom Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:18:30 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/09/fm-walkie-talkie/#comment-1062714 Motorola developed the "walkie-talkie" for the Army in WWII. They then shrank it to a handset that was bigger than an 80-s era cellphone brick and called it a "handie-talkie". Most of the cb-band handhelds were called walkie-talkies when I was a kid. We amateur radio operators seem to prefer handie-talkie for the our version. Interestingly, to my German cousins, a "handy" is a cellphone. Motorola developed the “walkie-talkie” for the Army in WWII. They then shrank it to a handset that was bigger than an 80-s era cellphone brick and called it a “handie-talkie”.

Most of the cb-band handhelds were called walkie-talkies when I was a kid. We amateur radio operators seem to prefer handie-talkie for the our version.

Interestingly, to my German cousins, a “handy” is a cellphone.

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