[Boatanchors] Re: [Milsurplus] Re: [armyradios] OT: Foxhole Electronics

[J Forster]

The crosstalk issue was part of the reason for the Fullerphone.

Best,
-John


David Stinson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
> Subject: [Milsurplus] Re: [armyradios] OT: Foxhole Electronics
>
> > What amazed me was that two way RADIO communication would have been barely
> > possible across
> > the lines using mostly telephone bits in WW I...
>
> I read somewhere that- besides "whistlers" and 'spherics heard on
> the WWI field telephone lines- that, in places where the trenches
> were close together, the combatants could cuss each other via
> inductive crosstalk, and that this was the genesis of the
> inductive "wireless" sets fielded late in the war.
> It's a good bet that the miserable, wet conditions lead
> to unbalanced conditions on the telephone pairs
> and that would mean crosstalk.  Besides that,
> many telephones worked "line to ground,"
> so were inherently unbalanced.