Sgt_Smith
Sat 20th Mar 2010, 12:07
Hi everyone!
I'm not sure if I'm on the right place or on the right tracks so to speak so forgive if I'm not!
My Father in Law is and has been for a number of years (since 1969 in fact) a keen WW2 re-enactor. Now he's not one for the standing about re-enacting, no he likes to go with a bang so to speak! As you can imagine in the interest of safety and co-ordination being able to communicate is a must. The difficulty here is the nature of his hobbie means he needs to appear authentic, so as you can imagine a German Panzer Grenadier from WW2 would look odd with a 21st century walkie talkie! So as a result he's roped me into trying to modfiy some old FM based two way radios to fit into authentic looking cases (Photo's will follow when I get some). It seems feasible but my question is this: Are they any kit's for building a working two way radio from scratch? As it maybe just as easy to do that and custom make the internals to fit the cases available, space is deffinately not an issue! As I said above is there any kit's or could you point me in the right direction with this. I'm more than happy to get my hands dirty as it were, (If you knew my father in law like I do you don't have much choice!lol)
so am more than prepared to wield a soldering iron!
I'm not sure if I'm on the right place or on the right tracks so to speak so forgive if I'm not!
My Father in Law is and has been for a number of years (since 1969 in fact) a keen WW2 re-enactor. Now he's not one for the standing about re-enacting, no he likes to go with a bang so to speak! As you can imagine in the interest of safety and co-ordination being able to communicate is a must. The difficulty here is the nature of his hobbie means he needs to appear authentic, so as you can imagine a German Panzer Grenadier from WW2 would look odd with a 21st century walkie talkie! So as a result he's roped me into trying to modfiy some old FM based two way radios to fit into authentic looking cases (Photo's will follow when I get some). It seems feasible but my question is this: Are they any kit's for building a working two way radio from scratch? As it maybe just as easy to do that and custom make the internals to fit the cases available, space is deffinately not an issue! As I said above is there any kit's or could you point me in the right direction with this. I'm more than happy to get my hands dirty as it were, (If you knew my father in law like I do you don't have much choice!lol)
so am more than prepared to wield a soldering iron!