[Milsurplus] tank radio skip?

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Actually there is a way to make the transmitter load into something 
like that.

If you feed one end of the perimeter loop from the transmitter and 
terminate the other end of the loop into a capacitor it will look a lot 
like a vertical with a capacitive top load.

That's not to say they did do it or that it would be very efficient. 
The only compelling reason to do it that way would be to allow the 
transmitter to function. If they did it then the evidence should be 
apparent in the vicinity of the end of the loop. I would expect a air 
dielectric capacitor in some kind of box. At least it's something to 
look for.

Now if we just had a working scout car to check out ....

	Take Care!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ


On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:52 PM, Hue Miller wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Zeranski" <ezeran at ezeran.cnc.net>
>
>>     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
>
> Okay, you find the article stating that these were horizontal loop 
> antennas, and i'll
> look here for the manual on the 30WS transmitter, and see if it has 
> any facility for
> loading an untuned inductive loop. ( I doubt it, since the same 
> transmitter had to
> work into the purely top-loaded Star Antenna in alternative vehicle 
> configurations.
> -Hue Miller
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