[Milsurplus] tank radio skip?

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Clete:

That's an H.F. antenna designed for NVIS use, but may also send some 
signals into DX paths.  See:
http://www.tactical-link.com/WWII_NVIS.htm  where there are some 
drawings showing these H.F. antennas on German armored recon vehicles.

73,

Brooke Clarke, N6GCE

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>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?  A german solder
>told me once that it was an antenna of some kind.
>
>73  Clete
>