Walkie Talkie Radios

History of Walkie Talkie Radios


"Walkie Talkie Radios" is the nickname of the first radio also known as Motorola SCR-300 (radio backpack transmiter). Motorola SCR-300 was created by the engineering team of Galvin Manufacturing Company in 1940.
On the period of World War II, “Walkie Talkie Radios” became “Handie-Talkie” as a nickname too but originally named as AM SCR-536 by the company of Motorola. Unlike walkie talkie, handie-talkie is more portable because it is hand-held while walkie talkie usually seen as back mounted model but both of them are high voltage dry cell batteries needed and run on vacuum tubes. You may use the handie talkie any time you wanted and as easy as your mobile phone.

Ironically, the first inventor of the first walkie talkie radios ever is Alfred J. Gross at the year of 1938. According to him, his objective to transmit voice through radio began when he is a young boy in Cleveland, Ohio. During the World War II, one of the inventor of first “two-way air-ground communication system is Alfred J. Gross. This device was used by the soldiers of United States during the World War II and could be used by flying pilots to communicate while under the line of war by their enemies. Since then, the two-way air-ground communication systems are widely used by United States Government. So Galvin Manufacturing Company decided to produce 300 units of Motorola SCR-300 and it’s more widely used until 1976. During the World War II period, Galvin Manufacturing Company produced at least 50,000 of these units for the U.S. Government. This first two-way radio is composed and operated by fully-transistorized power supply, 35 pounds of weight and can be used at the range of 10-20 miles.

Decades passed by, many companies of walkie talkie radios, manufacturers like Motorola decreased the size of this device to become more functional and better. And now, walkie talkie radios have been very reliable and free of charge to communicate.

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