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In 1924, the first British radio-equipped police vehicle carried an early vacuum-tube transmitter and receiver. A radio operator in the rear maintained communication, while a T-shaped wire aerial mounted on the roof could be folded down, allowing the vehicle to pass beneath low bridges.

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Kari, OH5XT, sat at the controls of the OH5AA contest station at Kymi Airport near Kotka, Finland, operating on 14 MHz during the 1978 Scandinavian Activity Contest (SAC) CW event as part of the multi-operator, multi-transmitter (M/M) team.

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