[Milsurplus] The German vehicle "Frame Antenna"

[Hubert Miller]

In the not recent past we on milsurplus list discussed the German WW2
distinctive vehicle antennas,

known as 'frame antennas'. There were references to a U.S. Army publication
that referred to these

antennas as loop antennas for NVIS service. 

 

I found the  reference that absolutely kills the 'loop antenna' idea:

"D 963/8 MERKBLATT fuer die behelfsmaessige herrichtung von handelsueblichen
kraftwagen als

Ersatz-Funkkraftwagen" ( 1941 )

 

roughly, "Bulletin for set-up of standard commercial trucks as stand-in
Radio Trucks." 

This shows how a "Dachantenne" ( "roof antenna" ) can be made by having two
wooden poles, one

elevated at each side of the truck bed, and running a wire zig-zag back and
forth between these poles,

and one end of the zig-zag is simply led down to the radio transmitter. A
'capacity antenna';  almost a

point source in terms of radiation pattern.

-Hue Miller 

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