[Fwd: Re: [ARC5] Re: [Milsurplus] History of Ham Mods: Opinions?]

Marty Reynolds cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org
Thu Jun 19 09:52:16 EDT 2008



I never gesssed the need for 4 yagis.  Radar was a Fug something, right?

We used a 200 mhz sperry homebuilt radar I've never seen pictured in '42. 
Put in nose of Loadstars to hunt subs.  Have parts to a nosecone fm
father-in-law

Marty aa4rm

> de WB2CPN
> Those "half folded dipoles" were quarter
> wave, or odd multiple thereof, verticals.
> As you said, they had one reflector element.
> You see a lot of folded verticals on the
> 50 MHz Commercial band.
> The first Yagi arrays I ever saw were on a
> German night fighter.  It had four on the
> plane's nose. All it took was a simple antenna
> switch and a synchronized CRT for the pilot.
> 73  Clete
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