Nice delivery yesterday. 6 Czech field telephones. They look 90% the same as the German ones. So far, 4 out of the 6 work (now i've rigged em to take a D cell battery, not the humungous block battery). The other two will work once i've done an order with RS Components for some new mics - i can find a modern equivalent that will fit in the handset no problems.
I'm not keen on using them at CR (want to overhaul ALL of them - bare bones overhaul), but will for UCAP. Question is, anyone know where to get a HUGE roll of D10 spec comms cable?
95 quid delivered for all 6. Bargain 
- now, if anyone finds a switchboard, let me know, will ya?
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Great stuff...
Try Johnson's Army Surplus in Leeds for comms cable
Nice buy , Johnsons of Leeds for the cable perhaps?
er... thats what I said..
Have you tried Johnsons in Leeds by any chance Jay?
ffss grrr,,, 
Jay, there's a place in Leeds where you can source cables....I think it's Jameson's or something like that.
Ask Yith, he might know.
I dunno, i was thinking of trying this Johnsons of Leeds place... 
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Johnsons! That's the place.
I do read all of Rich's posts honest 
Um Johnsons are 5 minutes drive from where I work , if you tell me what you want I can make inquiries .
Oh, this is just getting silly now. I blame the beer, its half litre cans, and i'm on number 4.
Using 4 of the Czech phones, two of my german telephones, and now a Jerry desk telephone that a mate brought over, i've set up the network from hell:
What does it mean? it means that the CO (sitting in the garage with the Desk telephone) can now pick up and speak to all the other phones - using just one phone himself. The ones between the shed and the garden use a ground loop return, therefore only need one wire between them. Oh, and i've been offered a ten line exchange as well, so you can call individual phones on the network
Shit, this is rather sad really. Right, i need another beer...
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Ah, the old 'ground loop return' ploy - good plan.
I can confrim, that beer + field phone = not good. Yes they do fucking hurt when you plug yourself inot them and crank the buggers.
10 cans down. two 2 go.
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Will these fabled phones be making an appearance at Wotan . And did you ever sort that cable, I believe there's a place in Leeds ...... 
If you need cable Steve D. gave me about 500m (probably more) of unshielded twisted pair at CR.
(Edit, by that I do not mean computer network cable (aka UTP). Basically its normal single core cable, but there are two wires and they are twisted together... easy to separate.)
Any chance of bringing the phones down to UCAP this weekend to have a play? I'll bring the cable.
Yeah, i'll bring a pair down, and a short length of cable. Got a good bit of D10 here, but you can never have too much!
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excellent...
