[ARC5] "1917"

[Joe Connor]

 I just finished reading the memoirs of a soldier from the Fighting 69th in WWI. He served as a runner, and he never mentions radio/wireless. From what he wrote, all communications between units was by runner. Behind the lines, some of these runners used motorcycles, but in the lines, it was all by foot and was considered extremely hazardous duty.
                                     Joe Connor
    On Sunday, March 8, 2020, 04:10:06 PM GMT-4, Phillip Carpenter <carpenterpa at tds.net> wrote:  
 
 I’ve posted a link to Radio of the Front Lines which makes clear the radio in 1917 was not reliable nor very effective.

Phillip WB4PAC 

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> On Mar 8, 2020, at 3:44 PM, Gene Smar via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> SPOILER ALERT!
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> If you haven't seen the movie "1917" and intend to, read no further.  Hit
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> Gents:
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>    My YF and I went to the local theater to see "1917" last evening.  It
> was riveting and an edge-of-the-seat experience.  
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>    However, being an experienced Ham radio operator and one who also
> collects milrads and is, therefore, familiar with the evolution of RF
> technologies over the past century-plus, the basic plot of the movie
> disturbed me a bit.  Weren't there wireless sets of appropriate capability
> extant during the spring of 1917 (the period during which the movie's action
> occurred) to enable one British HQ field office to contact another only a
> day's walk away and warm the remote forces of the trap being set for them by
> the Kaiser's forces?  Would it have been unnecessary to send two Brits on a
> march across No Man's Land to deliver a written message to the forces in
> danger?  
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>    I didn't mention anything about this conundrum to my YF who paid the
> $20 for the tickets until we were in the car after the movie.  Might the
> state-of-the-art at the time have made this movie plot more of a fantasy
> than it was portrayed?
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> 73 de
> Gene Smar  AD3F
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