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Carrier Receiver WB400A.

These units received a 72 kc/s carrier, amplitude modulated with speech and signal tones, transmitted over normal telephone lines. This avoided the need for a special network. The germanium transistors used in these could have been destroyed by the electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear bomb.

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Uploaded on November 8, 2009
Taken on April 6, 2008