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Old 26th Dec 2009, 2:09 pm   #25
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Default Re: Army Field Telephones and Compatibility?

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Originally Posted by russell_w_b View Post
I notice the Soviets didn't fit buzzers to their TAI-43 telephones
My German field telephones don't have buzzers either.

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the type Fs were hardly suited to Morse signalling in the same way as the 'D', which actually had a little key rather than a button.
Yes, I had wondered whether morse would have been at all practical on a type F, whereas type D's key shouts "morse" at you.
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