MAG Phone System

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In preparedness when we talk about communications most people think of radios, especially when we are talking about a “grid down” or “black sky” event (where there is no power from the electrically grid).  We also talk about area intelligence, signals intelligence (SIGINT), monitoring for electronic radio signals (ELTINT), communications security (COMSEC), communications intelligence (COMINT) and other techniques to listen in on what is going on around you by people using radios.   Here we’re going to discuss something that is probably forgotten about in this day of smart phones, internet, etc., and that is a landline or hardline phone.  Fewer and fewer people have one in their house any more, relying on their cell phones and internet connection for everything.  If you read Patriots by James Wesley, Rawles then you may recall that they used TA-1 field phones at their ranch from the observation/listening post (OP/LP) to the house. In this article well will look at the various field phones that can be found on the market together with switchboards and other ways to set them up.  The field phones were used by the military to send messages from the front lines to command posts and other places.  They...