[Milsurplus] Fwd: Fwd: Navajo code Talkers

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I read just recently in some period document that the standard TBX crew was 
five.  My bet is on the ground stake, insulator and the three bottom mast 
sections.  And maybe a short piece of pipe to use as a slide hammer. At about 
10' length, you could run with that.

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 12/05/2017 20:45:10 PM Central Standard Time, 
Kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> Dave, there's a photo of a TBX on the beach at Roi-Namur. NO trees in 
> sight.
> I was wondering if all the sections are really required. Like maybe 2, 3 
> sections with no guy wires. 
> I don't know if the transmitter would work into a shortened antenna. 
> I do have a couple complete antenna sets.
> I am certain no one subject to the physical laws of planet Earth could 
> have the setup operational in 30 seconds.
> -Hue 
> 
> >Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Fwd: Fwd: Navajo code Talkers
> 
> I had a complete TBX antenna at one time. Even had the guy ropes and 
> everything, except for the canvas. Many years ago.  The thin tubing from which 
> it was made was fragile as a college kid's  fee-wings.  I can't imagine that 
> anyone could have set the thing up under fire, much less moved it, without 
> breaking some of those tubes (or getting whacked).  
> Given that the shore parties using the radio would not have been more than 
> a mile or three from the beach, and being copied by communication stations 
> on ships / saltwater with full-size antennas and powerful transmitters, 
> I'd be willing to bet coffee and donuts that they just threw a wire over the 
> nearest tree and stuck a screwdriver in the dirt for a ground.  I bet you 
> that little field-expedient worked just fine.
> 

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
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