Guscha	A light buoy?	#1
Home away from home Joined: 2008/6/10 15:46 Last Login : Today 4:37 From Packardia Group: Registered Users Posts: 3508	One of the cars in the motorcade of Vice President Nixon was equipped with the below shown small device, attached to the windscreen. What is it made for? A flashlight, an antenna amplifier or Sputnik defense? Attach file:   (26.18 KB)   (17.58 KB) Posted on: 2011/5/16 5:43
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Dave Kenney	Re: A light buoy?	#2
Forum Ambassador Joined: 2006/4/23 16:14 Last Login : 2022/3/1 13:27 From Ontario, Canada Group: Forum Ambassadors Registered Users Posts: 1659	Looks like a yo-yo? but I suspect it is some type of radio antenna amplifier? Posted on: 2011/5/16 8:06
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Owen_Dyneto	Re: A light buoy?	#3
Forum Ambassador Joined: 2007/3/14 18:01 Last Login : 5/6 15:18 From New Jersey Group: Registered Users Forum Ambassadors Posts: 16631	It's one of those things that ships use; forget the acronym for it. When the ship sinks the device floats free; contact with water activates it to send out a distress call and locating signal. This might have been considered necessary because Nixon tended to loose his way sometimes. Posted on: 2011/5/16 8:20

JD in KC	Re: A light buoy?	#4
Home away from home Joined: 2007/3/30 9:53 Last Login : Today 13:45 From Kansas City, MO Group: Registered Users Posts: 1622	I'd vote for a two-way radio antenna OR... it could be a homemade replacement for the impossible to find Packard radio roof mast! Posted on: 2011/5/16 8:24
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fred kanter	Re: A light buoy?	#5
Home away from home Joined: 2008/6/9 2:32 Last Login : 2011/9/22 7:58 From NJ Group: Registered Users Posts: 727	Looks to me to be a cleverly disguised tricycle bell with an Official Tricky Dick Tracy antenna Posted on: 2011/5/16 9:36

Thomas Wilcox	Re: A light buoy?	#6
Home away from home Joined: 2007/9/10 18:44 Last Login : 2021/11/27 15:37 From Austin, TX Group: Registered Users Posts: 807	Quote: Owen_Dyneto wrote: It's one of those things that ships use; forget the acronym for it. EPIRB: Emergency Position-Indicating Rescue Beacon Posted on: 2011/5/16 11:41
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BigKev	Re: A light buoy?	#7
Webmaster Joined: 2006/4/17 13:30 Last Login : Today 16:37 From North Aurora, IL Group: Webmasters Registered Users Posts: 11314	It's there so he can get PackardInfo.com on extended range WiFi! Posted on: 2011/5/16 11:58
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Stephen Houseknecht	Re: A light buoy?	#8
Home away from home Joined: 2010/2/1 20:20 Last Login : 2018/6/2 18:22 From Buffalo, NY Group: Registered Users Posts: 415	It is actually the prototype device used by Hunt, Liddy and Colson during the Watergate break in. Posted on: 2011/5/16 13:33
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JWL	Re: A light buoy?	#9
Home away from home Joined: 2008/2/16 18:39 Last Login : Yesterday 17:32 From Santa Fe Group: Registered Users Posts: 5929	I think it is some kind of a mind control generator to keep the crowds friendly. Just look at the expressions on their faces. (o{I}o) Posted on: 2011/5/16 13:36
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Guscha	Re: A light buoy?	#10
Home away from home Joined: 2008/6/10 15:46 Last Login : Today 4:37 From Packardia Group: Registered Users Posts: 3508	Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. President (if connected), as far as I remember he preferred flush-mounted cable networks instead of Packard antenna masts and even an extended Dick Tracy would have encountered difficulties to keep control on empty yoyo reels by EPIRB. Thanks, laughing is contagious. Let's forget that device, I believe it is a clothes hook. Posted on: 2011/5/16 14:38
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