War and peace show 2012

[Andy Foulds]

Originally Posted by andrew honychurch

thanks for the advice and comments . I will look into those Clansmen headsets and as you say, an inexpensive motorbike system will do the job. Presumably they have the same sort of jack plugs?

If I am not on lawnmowing duty this weekend, and it isnt raining, I am going to try it down the road and see how we fair. I will report back of course.

Clansman headsets and boxes can be bought quite cheaply on ebay, when I last looked you could buy most of the bits for about £50.

Clansman when its working correctly doesn't require a radio to operate the system nor does it require the use of civvy frequencies. From memory even though its designed to run at 24 volts it will work with 12 volts. Basic problems with Clansman are the leads on PPT's and headsets.

Picture of the basic boxes needed for the system plus link to plugs / leads required (towards top off the page). http://www.ferret-fv701.co.uk/intercoms_&_radios.htm



Last year at W&P every man and his dog were on the civvy frequencies which doesn't bode well when moving AFV's about. Whatever you use it needs to be hard wired together without the need for a wireless system.

My two pennies worth buy something decent, cheap doesn't equal good for the vast majority of things in life and as you're vehicle isn't cheap it requires the corresponding system to go with it.

In regards to travelling to the show under its own steam have you seen how people behave around armoured vehicles slowing down to take pictures in cars , running out in the road to take pictures, crashing car into stationary vehicle at traffic lights (seen that). I'm sure that I can add a few more to that list if I wanted too and thats just with a moving vehicle.

After the grumpy bit driving to a show has some perks all the lasses smile at you (good ego boost), it pees Ferrari drivers off as all the attention goes to the AFV so on so forth you get the idea (very shallow).

[andrew honychurch]

thanks for this stuff, and I will definitely look into a Clansmen set. In 1994, I drove my Daimler Armoured Car, from Shrewsbury to Portsmouth and all around Normandy. I was only thwarded on the return 280 mile trip by a broken vlave spring. So I do have experience of driving Armoured vehicles on the road, and the visibility out of the vision slots and front hatch of a DAC is not great to put it mildly. That said, we are talking about nearly 20 years ago, and there is no doubt that traffic volumes are much greater than they were then.

As a point of interest, we drove the whole way using the internal 19 set intercom with original headphones. All I can say was that the chaps who used them in period with the noise of battle going on were amazing!

[carrierbarry]

Looks like it's going to be a MUDDY one !!

[Ron Pier]

The field before anyone gets there and the approach road at Paddock Wood!!
Ron

[andrew honychurch]

good job we have Carriers then!!!!!!! ( not too sure you arent pulling out legs there a bit Ron!)

[RichardT10829]

"There be land sharks round these parts there be" classic

[eddy8men]

nice one ron

i'm looking forward to doing a few 360 in the mud