Originally Posted by nanotm

its not legal but its your life, if like the idea of being behind bars

otoh if youve lost /broken yours and are attemtpign to save a few quid

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but getting caught with illegal mods is a courts martial offence so i wouldnt advise it, in fact its generally just better to go with what your issued especially where crypto stuff is concerned

WOW, good job no one else does it then, he will be easily identifiable as the only person in the Army who has a fischer cable! FFS i used to have half a dozen in my bottom draw as RSO and all signalers had one. I guess we will all go to hell in the end!

Originally Posted by crimsonhussar

WOW, good job no one else does it then, he will be easily identifiable as the only person in the Army who has a fischer cable! FFS i used to have half a dozen in my bottom draw as RSO and all signalers had one. I guess we will all go to hell in the end!

When we did our Bowmanisation we were encouraged to buy Fischer cables by the instructors, we were also told we could buy over the shoulder cables for 355 and 325s, I believe later on the Army even allowed for people to claim back money for such cables, though I've never met anyone who has tried it.

Bloody hell guys it's only a Fischer cable... My OC said he used to have one. Surely it ain't illegal to have one as they are issued... But I'd just like to have my own as its a nightmare to get through the system where I'm based....

Also while talking about this... Has anyone got an idea how to connect the SSARF to bowman kit so you can send the thermal images?

Originally Posted by crow_bag

When we did our Bowmanisation we were encouraged to buy Fischer cables by the instructors, we were also told we could buy over the shoulder cables for 355 and 325s, I believe later on the Army even allowed for people to claim back money for such cables, though I've never met anyone who has tried it.

why would you be encouraged to buy something that was already part of the BOM ?

asside from your instructors perhaps realising your probably going ot loose /break the serialised bit of crap cable your issued with and thus encouraged you to purchase soemthing you can swap for the real item without the need for a regi entry on a p class bit of kit....


seriously i never understand how some units ever managed to do anything without even adhering ot hte basic regs on storage maint usage and issue of kit, its not wonder hqlf was going ape for almost 2 years trying ot get units to account for bowman, even trying ot get units to go right down ot every nut /bolt/washer/cable clip or tie wrap in place on each install (i remember the rather animated conversation(s) when that one came out) not to mention all the cables are serialsied at least on paper at point of issue, i bet those blokes were getting a cut of the profits from all the cables sold as a result of all the mugs buying htem

Originally Posted by nanotm

why would you be encouraged to buy something that was already part of the BOM ?

asside from your instructors perhaps realising your probably going ot loose /break the serialised bit of crap cable your issued with and thus encouraged you to purchase soemthing you can swap for the real item without the need for a regi entry on a p class bit of kit....


seriously i never understand how some units ever managed to do anything without even adhering ot hte basic regs on storage maint usage and issue of kit, its not wonder hqlf was going ape for almost 2 years trying ot get units to account for bowman, even trying ot get units to go right down ot every nut /bolt/washer/cable clip or tie wrap in place on each install (i remember the rather animated conversation(s) when that one came out) not to mention all the cables are serialsied at least on paper at point of issue, i bet those blokes were getting a cut of the profits from all the cables sold as a result of all the mugs buying htem

When we were Bowmanised fischer cables either ACD -> civvy computer or USB -> UDT were either not availabe through the system or were in such short supply at the time that we (as a unit) did not get issued any, though eventually we could demand them.

The over the shoulders cables for the 355 and 325 are still not available throguh the system as far as I'm aware, though I don't know anyone who has actually bothered to buy one of these.

The only time I've seen over the shoulder cables for a 325 was in Afghanistan... Never ever in the UK and its a damn useful piece of it... You can buy them direct from Harris I think... Might get one for myself

Originally Posted by ranger7703

The only time I've seen over the shoulder cables for a 325 was in Afghanistan... Never ever in the UK and its a damn useful piece of it... You can buy them direct from Harris I think... Might get one for myself

all the shoulder cables were recalled from undeployed units in 05 and forwarded ot theater where they were put on the oet's, it was a real bish and afik there currently o nthe sneakybeaky or op only list like quite a lot of "usefull kit"

in respect of the ability to send TI via the UDT can you jump on a DII terminal and search through the online manuals theres a good chance you'll find what your looking for and iff not request your signaller to put in an ifo/change request ot the desk in landco where they will as the sme's advise of the correct procedure (assuming of course they allowed free access to those publications now, they were stilll listed as dv only the last tiem i checked on them) appologies if my info is outof date but ive been out of field force for almost 3 years although i'm surprised so much has changed with respect ot hte comms kit, maybe thats why people now like it instead of prefering a half decent Nokia wiht the GPS built in

Yea I've tried to look for info on sending TI pictures but with no avail.... I know it can be done but no-one seems to know, there use be a recce/mortar expert out there who knows