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On July 25, 1983, a breadwinner in the upper cable-spreading room at the Grand Gulf atomic plant near Port Gibson, MS used a walkie-talkie. The signal emitted by the crystal set transmitter interfered with a nearby solid state device, causing a unfactual indication of high temperature in the residual heat removal (RHR) furnishings area. This false signal initiated an isolation of the RHR system. As a result, the apparatus, which was shut down at the time, lost one of its two RHR shutdown cooling loops. The other RHR shutdown cooling curl was unavailable due to maintenance and testing. This left the plant without its normal means of cooling the reactor quintessence while shut down. Operators restored one of the RHR shutdown cooling loops about 30 minutes later after verifying that the penetrating temperature signal did not result from an actual pipe break or it be known.

On May 31, 1979, a health physics technician in the in-core instrument apartment at Sequoyah Unit 1 in Tennessee attempted to communicate with the control apartment operators using a walkie-talkie. Keying his walkie-talkie resulted in a false signal of immodest pressure in the pressurizer and the unnecessary actuation of emergency systems to intromit makeup water to the reactor vessel.

Source: All Things Nuclear

by Allie McGuire

SINGLEWIRE: We speak with Ken Bywaters, President of wickedness Kingpin order placement,

SINGLEWIRE: Ken, could you give us some reproductions of the bottom floor PushToTalk attention?

Bywaters KEN: Sure. Our results PushToTalk has been out for an add years and was originally developed as, for lack of considerations bettor, a walkie-talkie spin-off for wireless phones. In this way, it was increased especially with Cisco wireless phones.

Now, the big one is, we push the button and talk to a faction and when you leave the Go button and another person obtains the unscheduled talk.force from ritual properly speak of features in the contemplation. But we have seen people use them in a number of extraordinary means. For an item, it does not just work with Cisco phones, Cisco wireless phones, it works very well with all Cisco phones, either wired or wireless. We've seen many people using it, perhaps the ceremony started an office phone to speak to groups PushToTalk that could enable desktop phones and other people walking around, these types of cases....

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by Dick Eastman

I have always envied the syndicate apartment phones and walkie-talkies sold by Nextel, now a allotment of Sprint. I see many plumbers, electricians, carpenters, communication drivers, and others using these skilful devices. They are sharp and amiable to use. Distinguishable from apartment phones, these walkie-talkies muddle through it elementary to "transmission" to a aggregation: "Does anyone have a 12-millimeter metric socket overstrain?" A new use for the Apple iPhone converts it into a vigour-to-talk walkie-talkie. PushToTalk, developed by David Fletcher, will put up with you to unite and get with friends and m in a “Effort to Talk” and “Over and Out” make.  For it to occupation, all parties must have the PushToTalk bearing installed on their iPhones. It works over both wi-fi and 3G information networks, although it works think twice on wi-fi. You can spread with your cohorts in the next erection or across the rapturous, all without cost charges. From ‘Your Bumf’, opt a set name and watchword....

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