{"id":8616,"date":"2024-04-27T07:16:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T07:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/catalog\/sten-signal-lamp\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:32:59","slug":"sten-signal-lamp","status":"publish","type":"catalog","link":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/catalog\/sten-signal-lamp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sten\u2019 Signal Lamp (M-227)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electric signaling lamp nicknamed \u2018Sten\u2019 after its resemblance to the British Sten submachine gun.<br \/>\nUsed by the US Military during WWII, for the first time during the Normandy landings (1944), designated M-227.<br \/>\nUsed by the IDF during the War of Independence (1948). Infantry battalion was allocated five signaling lamps.<br \/>\nEnabled transmission of 10 words per minute, with a daytime range of 2,000 meters and night range of 8,000 meters.<br \/>\nOperated from the shoulder as a gun, using the trigger as a signaling key, or mounted on a tripod using an external morse key.<br \/>\nObserver used special red goggles or red filter over field binoculars.<br \/>\nBased on six Volts electrical lamp, concave mirror and a red or white filter; power source: five 1.5 Volts batteries BU-30 inserted in \u2018gun\u2019 barrel; weight: 3.75 Kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8600,"template":"","catalog_cat":[29],"period":[39],"class_list":["post-8616","catalog","type-catalog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","catalog_cat-visual-signaling","period-war-of-independence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/catalog\/8616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/catalog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/catalog"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"catalog_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/catalog_cat?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"period","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/period?post=8616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}