What is "radios"

Usage examples of "radios".

The American radios had been destroyed, but the plumbing was made of sterner stuff.

Their ground crews took fewer than ten seconds to begin preflight procedures as the airmen climbed the steel ladders into their cockpits and plugged in their helmet radios to learn what the emergency was.

Using a simple row of toggle switches and a round wafer-selector switch, the pilot could simultaneously monitor two UHF radios, two FM radios, a VHF radio, an HF radio, a secure scrambler system, an FM homer, a Guard channel radio for use in emergencies, and assorted navigational gear.

I now had a full issue of field gear, including a steel pot and a CAR-15 carbine, web gear and canteens, rucksacks and ponchos, jungle boots and fatigues, a pistol and a knife, a survival vest with radios and a parachute harness, and a flight helmet and gloves.

Phil finished his chat and began walking back toward the aircraft, and I hurriedly stuffed everything back into the vest, after making sure that the two survival radios had current batteries.

They were hunkered around one of the radios listening to the TOC direct the base defense.

Unfortunately, these jokes and offers to help were also monitored by the DASC radios in Saigon, and they in turn passed the news to the Australian Forces.

Normally, I would have been delighted to handle the radios or whatever might be needed to make things run smoother.

I clawed frantically at one of the two emergency radios we all carried in our survival vest.

The rest of the platoon kept their radios in the usual watertight compartments.

I noticed, were apathetic despite the immensity of the news which had greeted them from their radios and from the extra editions of the morning newspapers.

With their impressive suites of radios and radars, these gray and white and rusty little vessels observed and monitored everything that the carriers on Yankee Station did and reported on it to higher headquarters who, in turn, passed it on to the Vietnamese defenders.

Banks of radios and field telephones stood against one wall, manned by marines only slightly cleaner than their fellows outside.

The crewmen in the back were listening carefully to the radios too, knowing full well that one of them could soon be in the water, trying to help the A-6 crew, while the other tried to talk a new and inexperienced pilot into a stable hover over the scene.

As the radios came to life with frantic calls for fire support, he reaked that none of the call signs belonged to anybody on Hill 855.