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  2. Motorola Minitor - Wikipedia

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    Thus, Motorola answered this call in the 1970s and released the very first Minitor pager. There are six versions of Minitor pagers. The first was the original Minitor, followed by the Minitor II(1992), Minitor III(1999), Minitor IV, and the Minitor V released in late 2005. The Minitor VI was released in early 2014.

  3. Plectron - Wikipedia

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    A Plectron is a specialized VHF / UHF single-channel, emergency alerting radio receiver, used to activate emergency response personnel, and disaster warning systems. Manufactured from the late 1950s, through the late 1990s, by the now defunct Plectron Corporation in Overton, Nebraska, hundreds of thousands of these radios were placed in homes ...

  4. Pager - Wikipedia

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    Yes. Current supplier. Various. A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, [ 1 ] is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter.

  5. Motorola Pageboy II - Wikipedia

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    Motorola’s Pageboy II was launched in 1975 for the United States and 1976 for Europe in various types. Pb II 5-tone only 68–88 MHz / 146–174 MHz (US and Eur). Pb II tone only for 5-tone 80,6–88 MHz / 146–174 MHz (US). Pb II tone & voice radio for 2-tone signalling systems 68–88 MHz / 146–174 MHz (US). Pb II A04FNC Series radio ...

  6. Selective calling - Wikipedia

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    Selective calling. In a conventional, analog two-way radio system, a standard radio has noise squelch or carrier squelch, which allows a radio to receive all transmissions. Selective calling is used to address a subset of all two-way radios on a single radio frequency channel. Where more than one user is on the same channel (co-channel users ...

  7. Motorola Pageboy - Wikipedia

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    Motorola Pageboy was the second pager produced by Motorola with individual-unit addressing, [clarification needed] after the lesser-known "Handie-Talkie Radio Pocket Pager" from 1955. [citation needed] The first pager-like system was used in 1921 by the Detroit Police Department. However, the first pager that we would today recognize as such ...

  8. Portable People Meter - Wikipedia

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    A monitor that checks that the encoder is working properly. The wearable Portable People Meter carried by each panelist. A base station for each PPM, where each panelist in the household places it overnight to recharge the battery. A portable charger for vacations and other trips away from the home base. PPM original concept requires the base ...

  9. HMS Humber (1914) - Wikipedia

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    HMS. Humber. (1914) HMS Humber at Matruh, Western Egypt. Note additional 6-inch gun aft. HMS Humber was a Humber -class monitor of the Royal Navy. Originally built by Vickers for Brazil as Javary, she was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War along with her sister ships Severn and Mersey.