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SOME SIGNIFICANT GENERAL ELECTRIC "FIRSTS" IN TWO-WAY RADIO

FIRST in electronics.  "In the very beginning, the Electronics Industry - as we know it today - was born in General Electric.  While this has not been as widely publicized as it might be, those of us who were there at the time will not question the statement."  The quotation is from an address to an industry-wide audience by John J. Farrell on the occasion of the Old Timers Reunion, June 24, 1961, sponsored by the General Electric Quarter Century Club, Syracuse Chapter.  Mr. Farrell was a GE radio pioneer who worked for the Company from 1913 until his retirement in 1962.


EARLY GE FIRSTS

THE PROGRESS LINE - (March, 1955)

TRANSISTORIZED PROGRESS LINE - (June, 1959)

VOICE COMMANDER - (September, (1962)

PORTA-MOBIL - (April, 1964)

THE MASTR PROFESSIONAL SERIES - (June. 1964)

THE MASTR EXECUTIVE SERIES - (December, 1965)

THE TCC REMOTE CONTROL - (December, 1965)

THE XCC REMOTE CONTROL - (August. 1966)

THE MASTR ROYAL PROFESSIONAL AND ROYAL EXECUTIVE SERIES - SOLID STATE EQUIPMENT FOR LOW-BAND AND HIGH-BAND - (December, 1967)

FIRST UHF solid-state motorcycle radio.  (The 7.5 watt Porta-Mobil. August, 1968)


FIRST two-frequency receiver with "priority" sequential monitoring; continuous monitoring of two channels with priority accorded by the setting of the Fl, F2 switch on the Control Head.  PSLM (Priority Search Lock Monitoring) a GE exclusive.  (MASTR Professional and Royal Professional Progress Line-August, 1968)


THE MASTR PERSONAL "PR" SERIES FOR THE HIGH BAND AND THE UHF BAND -(March, 1969)

THE MASTR PERSONAL "PE" SERIES  - (August, 1970)

MASTR IMPERIAL - (FEBRUARY, 1972):

THE MASTR II SERIES - (OCTOBER, 1972):

FIRST computer-controlled, land-mobile radio system. (Toronto, Ontario Police Radio System.  Operational test phase - Summer, 1973,)


John A. McCormick 
11/9/73
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