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Ah, the Swedish Army had probably moved from SW to FM by the time that they let you loose! I bet you didn't have a 120v and a 1.5 HT & LT batteries to lug about.


Nah, the biggest batteries we used were the C-cells for the flashlights
For the tape/radio in the tent (unofficial of course, but ignored) )we used comms wire to our truck and a voltage regulator stuck in the battery compartment of the radio make the required 9V

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When I was crossing fields with a back breaking roll of cable bending me double, a crimping tool would have been a luxury: We had a pair of pliers and a roll of insulating tape!


Probably worked better...:) the crimp inserts were supposed to be insulated, but about 75% of the time you had to reinforce with tape anyway (and always check), so we didn't use them most of the time.
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/Michael