[Milsurplus] WWII German NVIS Antennas

Tom B tbryan at nova.org
Wed Jun 25 20:40:06 EDT 2008


>The antenna is called “Rahmenantenne” ­ “Frame antenna” when it’s mounted on
>the APC and it’s also called a “Dachantenne” ­ “Roof antenna” when it’s on
>top of a Deuce-type (6x6) communication van. The difference between these
>two is that the “frame antenna stands off higher from the metal body of the
>APC and it’s close to the roof of  the van. The HF transmitter used with
>these antennas is the R-130M  40W  CW/AM/SSB transceiver, covering from 1.5
>MHz to 10.99MHz.
>When the “frame” or “roof” antennas are used, the transceiver output is
>routed to a special antenna tuner which provides a balanced output as these
>antennas require.
>I don’t know whether these antennas are the same as the WW2 vintage ones,
>but they certainly look a lot like those.
>I can ask Guenther for more info on them.

There are some articles in English on Russian roof antennas here:
http://www.antentop.boom.ru/004/files/oma004.pdf
http://www.antentop.boom.ru/005/files/mma005.pdf


Tom








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