EXLUSIVE - Free book on Field Telephone equipment

[Val]

Does anybody recognise the SFI factory mark?

It's SEL. Standard Elektrik Lorenz

http://www.tiaoffline.de/shop/messtechnik/sel.jpg

http://images.art-phone.de/popup_ima...oudspeaker.jpg

[cTapocTa]

Here is another piece from SEL...



and it`s dated July 1972...

[cTapocTa]

interesting microphone looks just like ww2 period but made after war in 1954...




And another one made right after war in Nov 1948....

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And that`s what it should look like...




or even like that....

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Here is a bonus question: is this a period microphone?....







And what is this Handapparat about?...

[foy1944]

many thanks !!!

WAUW !!! thank you very much funksammler
i found everything i wanted to know
greetings ,Jo.

[Hans Zeug]

Fantastic work!

Funksammler a fantastic piece of work and so generous of you to share this wonderful study of the field communication equipment,surely a printed book to follow! Absoulutly fantastic. Thank you very much. I've just bought a telephone dialer to go with my other equipment,so now I'll have some idea how it works and how to connect the various items together. Best regards and thanks David.

[RA3CC]

Post your feedback in this thread please!

Dear Funksammler (wish I knew your real name),

You have compiled a great book, very useful for the guys like me. I have managed to collect so many of the devices described in your book, though was lazy enough (or too busy) to go in depth and find out how to operate the devices, etc. Thank you for a very good guide to my collection!

Yet I couldn't find any descriptions of the two Wehrmacht headsets that we have in our RKK Radio Museum. Let me show some pictures of the first one --- Abfragegarnitur-42 which definitely belongs to Luftwaffe devices having Nomenclature Code Ln 10013 and Geraet-Nr. 124-32521 shown on one of the receivers.

Sorry, I only had a chance to copy pictures right from our site which are low resolution. Tomorrow I will have a chance to get some better resolution pics. So here we go:











Can you explain where such headsets were used? As seen from the first picture, my guess was about controlling some field switchboards thru a FF-33...

[Funksammler]

Thanks to your kind feedback.

As you will have noticed there are regular threads on this forum asking about various headsets. There was a wide variety, both for military and civilian use and unfortunately very little information.

The five prong plug is not always an indication for use in field telephone equipment, as some intercom systems (for example those used on Luftwaffe Flak equipment) use the same connections. Most Ln marked sets are usually flak intercom sets or those used in command centres. "Abfragegarnitur" though hints as use as a telephone exchange headset.

Also many times cables, plugs etc. were changed after the war, as in many countries tried the get by with surplus german equipment. Since then collectors and radio amateur often "restored" items so it is often difficult to find "textbook" examples and making accurate identification of headsets a real minefield.

I am still trying to compile information comparing examples in my collection to those metioned in D-manuals. The "Festunganlage" document that you posted on your website for example helps to identify a number of specific headsets, but more work is needed before I can create a definate guide to army headsets.

[RA3CC]

...The five prong plug is not always an indication for use in field telephone equipment, as some intercom systems (for example those used on Luftwaffe Flak equipment) use the same connections. Most Ln marked sets are usually flak intercom sets or those used in command centres. "Abfragegarnitur" though hints as use as a telephone exchange headset...

Thanks for your opinion. I guess I will leave my display with "Abfragegarnitur-42" as is, i.e. connected to the FF-33. If I ever find a FF-43, I will place it next to the Kleiner Klappenschrank instead of current FF-33.

Let me try you on another headset. This one consists of a single earpiece and a throat mic (Kehlkopfmikrofon) with a control box like in Kmf.b.

All parts are marked with the codes starting with "L38" which implies the ideas of a Luftwaffe device commissioned in 1938.

I was waiting for Peter Aichner's "Funkbase" book:



but after I finally received it I have found nothing like those "L38" codes in "Funkbase"...
Here are some pictures of "L38" set copied again from our RKK Radio Museum site:

















This set might well be part of Flak equipment, though it looks more like an indoor device. Do you have any idea of where (und fuer welche Zweck) such headsets could have been used during WWII (2.WK)??

[Funksammler]

This last one I believe is a Flak headset. Throat microphones are typically used in high noise environments which a Flak gun certainly was! I have seen these headsets five to a bag, probably the number needed for a 88 mm Flak gun crew.

The Flak commander seen on this picture is seen wearing a single earpiece headset:

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I can't be sure it is the same type but it might well be. This is obviously a posed photograph, in action all the crewmembers involved in aiming the gun and setting the time fuses would wear their headsets.

On the next link you can see the typcial intercom connection point on the 88 mm Flak gun, they could take 5 pin as well as the 2 pin telephone plugs.

http://data3.primeportal.net/artille...010_of_135.jpg

regards,

Funksammler

[Asbjørn]

Looks like the link to your book is not working anymore. "This folder is no longer shared. " it says.

[Funksammler]

For some reason I managed to unshare the document and I can't get the original link to work. So here is the new link to the document:

https://www.sugarsync.com/pf/D855176_65_8236360668

enjoy,

Funksammler

[Sonnenwende]

Hi Funksammler,
just downloaded your book. Looking forward to a great read this easter

Thank you so much.

Regards Sonnenwende

[Lassi]

Great work

Thank you kindly for sharing this with us, very much appreciated

All the best
Lars