"Walkie-Lookie"

[wb4jfi at knology.net]

If I had to guess, I would think that the frequency would be around 450MHz 
or so.  The antenna elements look too long to really be "microwave".  I'm 
also wondering about the caption where the parabolic dish is identified as a 
microwave receive antenna.  The feed horn looks a LOT smaller than the 
portable transmit antenna.  I wonder if they were using "big ears" back then 
to pick up accoustic/audio, and if so, that was what the dish was being used 
for?

If it IS microwave, the the dish feed looks to be higher than 2GHz.

But, I've been wrong a LOT lately...
Terry, WB4JFI


-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike O'Dell
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 1:27 PM
To: Tacos
Subject: "Walkie-Lookie"

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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