Stereophile22 wrote:

The thing is their was kids walkie talkies transmitting on the same
frequency
as the ham radio in this episode.

Was this a goof in the erpisode, or did some kids walkie talkies
actually use
certain ham radio frequencies back in the 60's (although at much lower
power,
of course).

The oldest kids walkie talkies that I remember used 49 MHz.


Comedy television aside, there is an off possibility that Herman's ham
equipment could have communicated with kid's walkie talkies. If he had old
ham gear, it may have had the 11m ham band (part of which became the 11m
Citizens Band) Kid's walkie talkies of that era operated mostly on 27.125
MHz (CB channel 14). There were some fancier ones (and much higher cost)
that had up to three channels. These almost always ended up being channels
9, 11, & 14. Some Japanese talkies came stock with channel 9 crystals.. and
kids used to catch some hell in the early 70's because channel 9 is an
emergency traffic channel.