Viking from EF Johnson
Michael Kehinde
Gratefull if any one can give information on "The Viking", from EF Johnson, the
first full-duplex handheld radio for 800Mhz Multi-Net trunking system, whose
photo featured on pg. 77 of COMMUNICATIONS AFRICA 0f August/Sept. '95.
Pls reply to: mkeh...@gacom.net
Thanks.
Bill Garfield
(Michael Kehinde) wrote:
>Hello All!
>
>Gratefull if any one can give information on "The Viking", from EF Johnson, the
>first full-duplex handheld radio for 800Mhz Multi-Net trunking system, whose
>photo featured on pg. 77 of COMMUNICATIONS AFRICA 0f August/Sept. '95.
Geez, does this mean that EFJ has finally gone full circle
with their product names?
The last EF Johnson "VIKING" I recall was the Viking Ranger,
a behemoth of a desktop 60-watt CW/AM Amateur Radio transmitter
with a variable frequency oscillator that, as memory serves me,
covered the 3.5 to 30 mhz ham bands. 6146 final and a 2E26 in the
modulator as I recall.
Goodness! How time flies.
----------------------------------------------------------------
After ISDN, 28,800 makes you want to get out and push!!
Blood & Organ donors truly are very special people!
Please do not send unsolicited commercial e_mail to this address
----------------------------------------------------------------
Harry Joseph
>On 20 Jan 96 19:09:32 , Michael...@p2.f300.n7861.z1.fidonet.org
>(Michael Kehinde) wrote:
>
>>Hello All!
>>
>>Gratefull if any one can give information on "The Viking", from EF
Johnson, the
>>first full-duplex handheld radio for 800Mhz Multi-Net trunking system,
whose
>>photo featured on pg. 77 of COMMUNICATIONS AFRICA 0f August/Sept. '95.
>
>Geez, does this mean that EFJ has finally gone full circle
>with their product names?
>
>The last EF Johnson "VIKING" I recall was the Viking Ranger,
>a behemoth of a desktop 60-watt CW/AM Amateur Radio transmitter
>with a variable frequency oscillator that, as memory serves me,
>covered the 3.5 to 30 mhz ham bands. 6146 final and a 2E26 in the
>modulator as I recall.
>
>Goodness! How time flies.
I, too, was brought up short by the Johnson Viking name in a '90's context.
I seem to remember driving up from Chicago and borrowing same-named early
(can it have been?) CB equipment from their plant in Waseca, Minnesota for
a Model UN at the U of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Hate to think about it,
but it was my junior year in college, (gasp) 1960.
More to the point, I'll bet Michael should probably contact E.F. Johnson's
International Division, 7235-T Northwest 19th Street, Suite G; Miami,
Florida 33126. Phone: 305-591-2130; fax 305-477-5360; telex 51-4122. Good
luck!
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
---Groucho