[Milsurplus] British sets WWII et al..

[Ben Nock]

Ben,
It may not have been clear in my original message but I was responding to=
 =

some highly negative comments on WW2 UK signals equipment attributed to o=
ne
of =

your chaps, Major General John Frost in his book "A Drop Too Many."   =

No slander intended.
Dennis D.   W7QHO,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Non taken Dennis, just putting my point of view. As I have spoken face to=

face with =

boys who were actually at the bridge and in charge of the radios, at leas=
t
as far as operating =

them goes, it may be there was not as much wrong as has been said.  One o=
f
the chaps =

I know states he was in communication with the party at the Hartlestein a=
t
the same =

time Urquart was complaining he could not talk to the bridge.  =


The fact that the bridge could not raise 30 Corps or the UK was nothing t=
o
do with the radios per say, =

regardless of where the radios were made, UK, USA, Timbuktoo, you cannot
work 30 mile on
a 12 ft whip with 1/2 watt of phone from within a Dutch town whose typica=
l
house is around 40ft high.
Had the guys at the bridge been able to get out wire aerials of any =

length then long range communication may have been possible, indeed, I ca=
n
work from here, =

central UK, into Arnhem using a 19 set to 19 set but with long wire aeria=
ls
both ends.

Though a great admirer of Jonny Frost I feel he may have had a too narrow=

view of the problems
associated with radios, ie that you need an aerial for them to work.  Fro=
m
his point of view they failed, =

I dont think they did, they were just deprived of their full potential by=

circumstance. =


regards all. Ben G4BXD
Arnhem page;  www.qsl.net/g4bxd/g4bxd11.htm