17 May
2005
17 May
'05
4:35 p.m.
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 6:06 PM
Every battlefield since WWI has had "spare headsets" laying around, usually
>From:
"Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at randy482.com>
>In the 1940's how many people were able to build a radio reciever with
>what
>they found in the battle field (razor blade, safety pin, knife, wire,
>headset), how many could today? The same applies to computer
>technology.
^^^^^^^
what kinds of wars litter the battlefields with spare headsets?
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi
I could. Junk today has more useable parts than the
junk they had then. Making a AM radio is quite easy today.
Dwight
You are NOT typical of current society (that is a compliment, not an
insult)
How many people saw that Nova? PBS session where they handed ENGINEERING
undergrads a battery a bulb and a handful of wires? Many of the students
were adament that it was impossible to light the bulb without a socket.
Many of them made a dead short across the battery, and then touched one of
the bulb contacts to that. etc. from damaged radios.
When a field radio was damaged in a firefight it was abandoned, carrying
around a dead radio while bullets are flying doesn't make any sense. Later
it was extremely common for soldiers with the right knowledge to pick up the
headset and build AM receivers, with spares they passed them on to buddies
to use. WWII field radios to too bulky for the average GI to carry around
compared to just enough material to make a simple AM receiver.
For the record they were not used for tactical use just to listen to music
etc while sitting in foxholes.
Randy
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