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Re: RSGB makes it to El Reg

Brian Reay wrote:

> "EA1/G1LVN" <gareth.paley@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:a6972204-866c-4505-9a08-3a578ac17235@c3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>
>>We are talking G3A's here. Everyone was at it then. The US CB band has
>>it's roots in the popularity of  yapping away on the "liberated"19
>>sets (tank band) by de-mobbed signallers.
>
>G3s are / were UK callsigns.
>
>The WS19 was a British set, although some were built in Canada (inc some
>with Russian dials). I doubt many got to the US until much later.

Britain didn't have the industrial capacity to produce the WS19, so it
gave the contract to Northern Telecom of Canada. In order to meet the
demand, they had to sub out the work to several US firms: Zenith, RCA
and Philco. About 2 million were made.

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Aero Spike
Not a member of the RSGB for 50 years 1959 - 2009

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