[Milsurplus] Higgins PT Boat Whip Antenna?

[Nick England]

Hi Gang - can anyone help?
I've posted his photo of the PT-659 whip antenna base at
http://www.navy-radio.com/ant/ant-pt-whip.JPG

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From: Robert Stengl <robert.stengl at nationalww2museum.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Subject: Higgins PT Boat Whip Antenna
To: "nick at navy-radio.com" <nick at navy-radio.com>

Hello,
I'm restoring a PT boat from WWII and request assistance regarding a
whip antenna.

I have a picture of the whip antenna base from PT-659 that we
cannibalized for the PT-305 which is an earlier model.

Premex is the only antenna maker I know of and just looked at the base
we have from the 659 (IMG_0615) and it has identifying marks; the
copyright symbol followed by "LAPP".  So I think there was a company
known as LAPP Engineering & Co. The Higgins boat builder drawing have
no reference to either.

Do you know which whip antenna we should be looking for?

I also am seeking a SO radar set and IFF for this project.  Do you
have any suggestions on where I may look?

Any information is appreciated.

Robert Stengl
Boat Builder
PT-305 Restoration Project
National WWII Museum
945 Magazine St.
New Orleans, La  70130
504-528-1944 Ext 375