"Walkie-Lookie"

[Richard O'Neill]

  Those images take me back. The '52 convention occurred before my 
family had TV but I do remember watching Eisenhower take the oath of 
office on a friends small screen television. The next year my family had 
one too, a Hoffman. My, how time does fly.

Richard


On 5/4/2013 1:27 PM, Mike O'Dell wrote:
> Ancient front-page news. RCA/NBC spends $2mm covering convention
>
> Note great color picture of Dave Garroway with a "Walkie-Lookie" and
> a back-pack transmitter. can anyone estimate the frequency based
> on the crossed dipoles?
>
> http://www.vacuumtubeera.net/RadioAge-1952-07.pdf
>
> That would they think of an iPhone 5 transported back then.....
>
>     -mo
>
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