Low-tech signaling (militia, etc.)

[WallShadow]

While not a communication device per se, one could use a bullroarer (wooden noise generator whirled around on a rope) to alert one's compatriots to unwelcome guests in the zone of control.

Hmmm... I wonder how a laser designator could be adapted to the task of communications?

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by WallShadow

Hmmm... I wonder how a laser designator could be adapted to the task of communications?

You'd need something that can detect the laser beam, as it is normally eye-safe and not in a visible light spectrum. Perhaps you could pull such a detector off of a guided weapon, or from a disabled vehicle equipped with a laser warning device.

[helbent4]

Telephones using barbed wire for signalling was a technique widely used by Saskatel in the beginning of the last century, so that's certainly quite viable.

Something else along those lines would be a telegraph, perhaps even a resurrected teletype (found in some telecom museum?).

Tony

[Trooper]

Messenger dogs and for urban enviroment smoke detectors (EMP???) and speaking tube.

[pmulcahy11b]

Those horrid horns they trotted out for the last World Cup?

[helbent4]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

Those horrid horns they trotted out for the last World Cup?

Paul,

Those were "vuvuzelas". God help us all!

Hitler and the vuvuzela at the FIFA World Cup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Ln_rqPpPk

I think more like the tubes they have on older ships (Engine room, full speed ahead!)

Answering another post, I don't think smoke detectors would be affected by EMP. Home ones are not hooked up to the grid and generally not computerised. Commercial buildings are a little more complicated and vulnerable.

Tony

[WallShadow]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

You'd need something that can detect the laser beam, as it is normally eye-safe and not in a visible light spectrum. Perhaps you could pull such a detector off of a guided weapon, or from a disabled vehicle equipped with a laser warning device.

How about adapting MILES training gear to remotely activate something or remotely detonate explosives?

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by WallShadow

How about adapting MILES training gear to remotely activate something or remotely detonate explosives?

That sounds quite doable, with Electronics or Combat Engineer skill.

[headquarters]

finding wire and some sort of electrical source to get a pulse so you can morse code..should be relatively common in this situation I guess..

[TiggerCCW UK]

Originally Posted by headquarters

finding wire and some sort of electrical source to get a pulse so you can morse code..should be relatively common in this situation I guess..

Only issue I have with that is how many people actually know morse? Could work for a simple code though - one buzz for stand by, two for attack imminent, that sort of thing.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by TiggerCCW UK

Only issue I have with that is how many people actually know morse? Could work for a simple code though - one buzz for stand by, two for attack imminent, that sort of thing.

All I know is SOS -- a code you make up among yourselves would probably be better, and less likely to be figured out by the enemy if one of the receivers is lost to them. Sort of like break code with radios.