Who’s next?
:?: :? someone go already! :shock:
Ok, since nobody else is posting, here is my question:
What is this obscure bit of equipment? (Student Scaley, if you know, please wait for a day, to give the others a chance 
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Who invented it and what was it used for? What was the big advantage of this gadget and what was the biggest disadvantage?
Jan
I could tell you all about it as I’ve found the site you got it from
You might want to host the pic yourself…
No cheating, please!
BTW, I put the picture on my own picture site. So no more cheating possible.
Jan
Jan, check your PMs.
Time for another question then?
As soon as anybody inputs the right answer!
http://www.ww2incolor.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=19181#19181
OK is it H2S?
Nope, its a WWII Fullerphone MK V FD WT Set.
Correct, just explain what it was used for and what the advantages and disadvantages of it were!
Jan
Advantages:
Run line therfore not susceptible to RDF (in it’s infancy,) or sigint by other stns ‘listening in.’
DC can be used wherever the cells are available.
Disadvantages:
Run line therefore only connection to certain stns.
DC only gives a range of about three or four miles.
Does that cover it ?
Yes, even if the enemy manages to tap the wire, unless he has a Fullerphone himself, he will not be able to hear anything. One disadvantage over e.g. a field telephone is that it works only as a telgraph, using Morse code, so an ordinary squaddie couldn’t use it.
Jan
(My bold.)
Any ordinary squaddie, such as myself, should be competent at Morse. 
Is Morse code part of the training in the British Army of normal soldiers (not signallers), at a level of a proficient telegraphist?
I thought it was only taught to signallers.
Jan
Nobody gets taught morse anymore (apart from SF), as far as I know.
I’m a Scaley
Nobody gets taught morse anymore (apart from SF), as far as I know.
I’m a Scaley [/quote]
Maybe it was just the movie…but I thought US Navy Pilots are still taught morse code.
Maybe they are, but no one in the Royal Signals is (apart from the ‘Special’ people).
Maybe they are, but no one in the Royal Signals is (apart from the ‘Special’ people).[/quote]
I thought the Royal Sigs were ‘special’ people
The Royal Navy are still taught it, as are the signals people on the North Sea Oil Rigs.
Did any one see that guy doing morse on independance day? with the heel of his hand. If the guy who taught me morse could have got hold of him!!!
Edit to add Pilots may also be taught or at least have a card in the cockpit with it all written on, for signalling.
I am special people, my mum tells me so.