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After crashing on a barren rocky world in the episode "You Can't Go Home Again" Starbuck tries to contact the Galactica to be rescued.

Unfortunately, her long range walkie-talkie radio gets damaged during her rough landing on the planetoids surface.

Some forty years earlier, as seen in the tele-movie "Razor", William Adama successfully contacts the Galactica to have the "Starbird" rescue him from an icy planets surface after he discovers the first Cylon hybrid research facility.

Walkie Talkie

Made from the Motorola HT440 "Handie-Talkie" radio, the prop was created by White Monkey Design for the prop department.

The base radio is a "four channel" Motorola Handie-Talkie.

Galactiguise

Very little stuff, or what is known as "gak - Garbage And junK", is added to the radio to make it look retro-futuristic.

The stubby antenna is the handle from an aeronautics "front release connecter" removal tool. Part of the center section was machined down on a lathe.

The second smaller antenna that replaces the speaker volume knob on the right is an, as yet, unidentified pneumatic fitting. This "gak" was taken off a larger bit of junk by the prop makers at White Monkey Design.

The aluminum speaker grill and round medallion on the left side were the only two pieces custom machined by White Monkey's CNC department.

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