[Milsurplus] tank radio skip?

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Moore" <radioengineer at earthlink.net>

> A vertical antenna makes a very bad NVIS antenna.  I suspect the antenna 
> is indeed a NVIS antenna.
> 
> Randy Moore
> AI4CO

You are proceeding from this logic: the German vehicles with the frame antenna
used HF NVIS. Therefore, the frame antenna must be an NVIS antenna. 
However, you need to establish that the bulk of German HF vehicle communication
when not on the low vhf band, was in fact using HF  and NVIS.  Can you do that?
If so- what then was used as an antenna for the LF/MF equipment?
I have this in print somewhere - perhaps "Encycopedia of German Tanks", a
large book which lists also vehicles vs. radio equipment carried. I believe this
also states, in ENGLISH language, that the frame antenna was for the LF/ MF 
gear.  Let me ask:  If you have a German scout armored car, one of the PKW250
series ( i have the nomenclature a little wrong here ), with say only a vhf radio,
and then also a MWEC receiver  ( 1- 3 MHz) and a WS30 transmitter ( 1- 3 MHz ), 
where is your HF NVIS coming from? Or are you saying the LF equipment depended 
on skywave reflection?  -Hue Miller