[Milsurplus] Radio pic

[Bruce MacMillan]

I think that some of the claims regarding this Canadian development of 
portable radios were written by family members 🙂. Donald Hings did 
develop portable sets for the mining industry but the claims of the 
military sets are quite erroneous. The WS58 was never deployed to 
regular active service. Only 600 were used by the British Home Guard and 
a few sets were sent to the northern European theatre for battle trials. 
The balance were sold off surplus after the war or given to European 
countries.  The WS58 has no scrambling or battlefield noise suppression. 
The modular antenna system is no different to other sets, ie rod, 
telescopic or wire. The closest Hings came to a "walkie talkie" was the 
Wireless Set 27 (Can).

Bruce   M0SOE

On 20/04/2026 16:00, Ray Fantini via Milsurplus wrote:
>
> Along the line of that Weavix has a web page that gives a timeline and 
> development of manpacks, handhelds and tactical FM, the only thing is 
> they tend to say that Canada deserves all the credit?
>
> There web site is:
>
> https://weavix.com/blogs/walkie-talkie-history/#walkie-talkie-historical-timeline-1930s-present
>
> They are a Wi-Fi/LTE subscription-based (Opex) vendor but thought this 
> was a good web site anyway.
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
>
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