Low-tech signaling (militia, etc.)

[pmulcahy11b]

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

[WallShadow]

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

[helbent4]

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/watchv=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

[pmulcahy11b]

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]

wire comms

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]

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]

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.

[Raellus]

Gunshots

If somebody's already mentioned this, I apologize, but simple gunshots can be used to communicate over distances.

In Vietnam, VC or NVA trail watchers and tracker teams would use simple gunshots to make other nearby units aware that enemy forces had been detected. They were sophisticated enough to relate direction of travel and unit size. American (and ASAS and NZSAS) recon teams knew that seemingly random gunshots in the jungle meant that they had likely been detected. Apparently some VC/NVA LZ watchers used gunshots to signal "all clear" as well, so one could never be sure what mysterious gunshots meant (unless they were fairly steady, meaning the recon team was being tracked).

I've used this technique a lot for militia/marauder/irregular forces in my T2K PbP.