[Milsurplus] 1917

Sun Mar 8 17:19:38 EDT 2020

 Perhaps the attached pic of signal corp mobile close to that era may indicate the technology level.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC

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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: Welding wire, more. (Glenn Little WB4UIV)
  2. Re: Welding wire, more. (KD7JYK DM09)
  3. "1917" (Gene Smar)
  4. Re: [ARC5] "1917" (Joe Connor)

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 22:02:00 -0500
From: Glenn Little WB4UIV <glennmaillist at bellsouth.net>
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Welding wire, more.
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Another cable to look for is Locomotive cable.
Very flexible and well insulated.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV

On 3/7/2020 5:28 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> " A good source of large diameter copper cable is welding cable - - 
> visit your local welding shop or ePay. Its a nice flexible black or 
> red cable."
>
> And, I forgot to mention, seems there's always one thing...
>
> I've been looking over the welding cable, with various shapes of lugs 
> to terminate, to bond various vehicle components, computers, cabinets, 
> communications equipment, et cetera.? I've used numerous flat woven 
> bonding straps in the past, and in high vibration areas, such as 
> vehicles, I've wound up with shattered straps, and metal needles, by 
> the thousands, everywhere.? I think the sheathed flexible welding 
> cable will give me the electrical bonding I need, without the fatigue, 
> and metal debris issues.
>
> Kurt
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 20:40:14 -0800
From: KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
To: Glenn Little WB4UIV <glennmaillist at bellsouth.net>,
    milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Welding wire, more.
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"Another cable to look for is Locomotive cable.  Very flexible and well 
insulated."

I'm glad you mentioned THAT!

I had a project where I was at my wits end trying to find XLPE 
(cross-linked polyethylene) sheathed wire.

That DLO cable looks really good!

Researching that led to locomotive control cables, and, railway approved 
data cable.

To see something really interesting, look for images of locomotive belt 
sander.  Far cooler looking that my relatively modern (early 90's) 
Porter Cable sander!

Kurt

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 15:44:38 -0400
From: "Gene Smar" <ersmar at verizon.net>
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Subject: [Milsurplus] "1917"
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SPOILER ALERT!

If you haven't seen the movie "1917" and intend to, read no further.  Hit
DELETE immediately.

Gents:

    My YF and I went to the local theater to see "1917" last evening.  It
was riveting and an edge-of-the-seat experience.  

    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?  

    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?

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F

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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 20:34:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: Joe Connor <joeconnor53 at yahoo.com>
To: Gene Smar <ersmar at verizon.net>, Phillip Carpenter
    <carpenterpa at tds.net>
Cc: mrca at mailman.qth.net, arc5 at mailman.qth.net,
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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [ARC5] "1917"
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 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 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 8, 2020, at 3:44 PM, Gene Smar via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> SPOILER ALERT!
> 
> SPOILER ALERT!
> 
> If you haven't seen the movie "1917" and intend to, read no further.? Hit
> DELETE immediately.
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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.? 
> 
>? ? 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?? 
> 
>? ? 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?
> 
> 
> 73 de
> Gene Smar? AD3F
> 
> 
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