[Milsurplus] tank radio skip?

[Ed Zeranski]

> > 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.
> > Brooke Clarke, N6GCE
>
> I'd suggest that it's a wee bit presumptive to call this an "HF NVIS
antenna".

    I recently read two articles in a Signal Corps magazine dealing with the
types of antennas we have been describing here used by the German Army in
WWII. They were NVIS antennas. I'll try to find the articles dealing with
communications in the desert, something the Services have a present interest
in, that dealt mostly with German pre-war research and war time
implementation. There were pictures of scout/command vehicles with
horizontal loop antennas with descriptions of operation. Mr. Fiedler who
wrote the article has been working in the field/tactical communications area
for quite a while

EdZ