[Milsurplus] RT-67

[Hue Miller]

I think that whatever opinion on this appeared on her website was probably
inspired by an article in a U.S. Army publication. The article was based on
pure unfounded speculation, hard to fathom why when the facts are not
terribly obscure. -Hue 

-----Original Message----- 
From: J. Forster 
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 9:43 PM 
To: Hue Miller 
Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] RT-67 

That site belonged to Patricia Gibbons, now SK.

-John

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>
>
> Dave,
>
> Here's the page claiming these are NVIS antennas;
> http://www.tactical-link.com/WWII_NVIS.htm
>
> As far as I am concerned, this is dead wrong.  Your description of it
> being a short, top-loaded, antenna for ground-wave is likely correct.
>
> Al
>
> On 6/24/2011 8:02 PM, David Stinson wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
> They authors know the story and they don't want to know different.
> Just like the RT-67 seller.
> I believe I read, but unfortunately didn't record where, that the
> "Sterneantenne" capacitive loaded vertical mast replaced the
> frame antenna, which was too prone to damage and more expensive,
> no doubt, to replace.
> Clue: how do you get NVIS on 1500 kHz in the daytime?
> -Hue
>
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