[ARC5] WOW

[MARK DORNEY]

I am never totally surprised by the resourcefulness of military personnel if they are on a mission. Maybe they could get the parts needed, maybe they couldn’t. But I’d never count them out. 

Mark D. 
WW2RDO


“In matters of style, float with the current. In matters of Principle, stand like a rock. “.   -   Thomas Jefferson 

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> On Aug 1, 2021, at 1:24 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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