Radek Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Can somebody help me with this wireless? It is ww2 or post war. Cheears Radek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58 BE 88 Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 British, and designed in 1947/8 as a platoon-level radio to replace the Wireless set 38. The important thing about the WS88 is that it moved the inter-platoon radio traffic to VHF (40-42 MHz) and that it was completely hermetically sealed - a lesson that had been learned with the WS38 when used in the tropics. It's as simple to operate as it gets, an ON/OFF switch, a channel selector (4 channels) and a squeeze-to-send switch on the end of a cable. The battery is a 90v + 1.5v unit carried in a similar pouch on the wearer's belt on the right side with a cable linking the two. The antenna is a 4-foot sectional rod or a trailing wire for camouflage. The four channels A-D match with those marked on the scale of the WS31 which was carried at company level. There was a companion WS88B that had a black panel and four different channels that was issued to mortar platoons. They were made by E.K. Cole Ltd (EKCO) in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, and were still on issue to the cadets until the 1980s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schliesser92 Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 The WS88 was in limited use by the Regular Army as late as the early 1970s. Some were released from war reserve and were used on St Kilda (some 4 or 5 sets) to monitor personnel/cargo transfers from HMAV Mull to the jetty on the island. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radek Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 many thanks for info :tup:: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris C8 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Used them in the Cadets, they were not very good. You should have a battery pack that fitted in the other web pouch then went into the radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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