[Milsurplus] German MF/LF Vehicle Antennas

[Meir WF2U]

Dave,

I have some material on this I have to dig out of my document archives. It's
actually from Russian sources, as they liked to use the same arrangement,
and it carried over all the way through the 80's at least. One of my Russian
radios is a field/vehicular transceiver (R-104M), mission equivalent of the
GRC-9 which for certain vehicular installations uses an external tuner,
specifically made for loading these "bedframe" antennas (incidentally, it's
also good to load into a 50 ohm antenna if one of the 2 balanced output
connectors is grounded. BTW the transceiver covers 1.5 to 4.25 MHz.

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC

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[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David Stinson
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 8:02 PM
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Subject: [Milsurplus] German MF/LF Vehicle Antennas

Please take a look at item 310326038164, a photo of a German
armored vehicle of WWII.  IIRC, this is equipped with an electrically 
short,
capacitively-top-loaded antenna for medium-frequency transmission.
I don't remember the exact band used or power levels.
No reason this shouldn't work well for a few miles groundwave.
Can someone point me to details?  I'd like to try some experiments
one of these days.

73 Dave S.
 

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