[Boatanchors] B-17 antenna connection

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Dave Fairchild, a friend  from my old  childhood days hanging  around LA 55 
 Nike  radar  site people, taught  me anything  radiate... it radiates even 
better if it  tuned and huge amounts  of  power are applied...
 
Ed#    (looking for  more teletypes and parts for them  this !  on your way 
to calif drop them off! ))
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In a message dated 11/27/2016 6:04:39 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
scr287 at att.net writes:

On  11/27/2016 6:52 PM, Michael Hanz wrote:
> It's a solid electrical  connection bonded to the skin, Mac.  I agree 
> the skin is  probably not the sole radiating element here, and I 
> suspect the radio  operator had a bit of retuning work to do with 
> changing over from  trailing wire to "loop" and vice versa.  I wish I 
> had run across  a discussion of the design parameters over the years, 
> but alas, not  yet...
>

Maybe this analogy isn't covered by the physics,  but...

The arrangement discussed reminds me of the driven element of a  yagi. A 
radiator(wings) attached to a boom(fuselage)
fed by an  attachment out on the wing (gamma match). Probably easier to 
visualize on  a plane with long skinny wings
like a B-29.

Probably a lot more  complicated than that.

Jack Antonio  WA7DIA/4


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