[Milsurplus] tank radio skip?

[David Stinson]

C Whitaker wrote:

> WB2CPN                    2005.01.30
> 
> Before this ends, does anyone have an item
> of information that will clear up something
> I've been wondering about for years.  In
> pictures of the Staff cars, and communication
> cars used by the Germans in North Africa,
> what is that horizontal rectangular frame that's
> as wide and long as the vehicle, and installed
> just above the driver's head? 

I was told this is a low-freq communications antenna,
like for longwave, and it fits that idea.
I'm not the expert in German radios- just passing
this along.