[Milsurplus] Equipment ID? Navy, pre-war?

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

Given where the connection is going, doing it with a piece of tube makes sense. 
It’s not coax with the single wire insulator on the other end of it. Something rigid
let them keep the feed line out of the operator’s face …. If there is no transmit 
function, it’s just a piece of random wire antenna running into the receiver. 

Could be pre-war / during the war / post war with a single wire feed. That sort of thing
hung around for a *long* time. You could have a picture of a  setup that was done in 
1938 being operated in 1948 …..

Bob

> On Oct 2, 2017, at 5:43 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2 Oct 2017 at 15:52, Nick England wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Looks like shiny copper tubing to me - connected to a single-wire feedthrough.
> 
> You're right. I just took another look.
> 
>> Typical pre-war 
>> Navy HF xmtr hookup. The photo might even pre-date co-ax?
>> 
>> I dunno.....
> 
> Me either, but I would sure like to know...
> 
> Ken W7EKB
> 
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