[ARC5] WOW

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 1 Aug 2021 at 4:44, Hubert Miller wrote:

> Something I wondered about, and wiser heads may wish to straighten me out:
> How did the presumably 3 - 4 and 4 - 5 and  / or 5 - 7 MHz transmitters work into
> a vehicle antenna? I seem to recall the ARRL Handbook one year in an article on
> using Command Sets transmitters, said 15 foot was the minimum should be used
> with the 7 - 9 transmitter. I doubt the Jeep antenna was much over about 10 foot
> maximum. 
> -Hue Miller

I was wondering the same thing, Hue. I examined that photo a bit closer just now, and can 
see a small wire running from what looks like a ground lug on the rack to the side of the 
Jeep;s body.

As I remember it (and anyone can correct me if I am wrong) those screw-together antenna 
pieces could be made to extend to 30 feet long. I believe they were used in the SCR-399, 
that 2 1/2 ton truck with the BC-610 and BC-312s in it and the PE-95 in a trailer behind it..

Maybe the tech(s) simply screwed enough of them together until the transmitters worked.

The whole thing looks like they cobbeled it together from whatever they could scrounge.

I still have a number of those color-coded screw-together antenna bits here but not enough of 
them to make any sort of antenna.

Ken W7EKB