[Milsurplus] [MRCA] AT-803 coaxial stub

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ray. the official location for the 803 is on the hood of the jeep well forward to allow the hood to be opened afainst the windshield.  i have seen 803 mounted on a pipe on the right side of the jeep between the passenger opening and the front wheel well. on top of the pipe was a smal plate with maybe 6 thin rod radials  about 12 inches long

jeff

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> On Oct 27, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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> I have a AT-803 Coaxial Stub antenna that to me looks like a fat vertical dipole. It appears to be designed for mounting on flat surfaces and covers 225 to 400 MHz Want to install it on my M151A1 and use as a receive antenna on the UHF aviation band with the URC-110
> Figure I can throw together a bracket maybe attached to the mount of the 110 being that the back of the mutt is somewhat full of sticks now with the huge whip for the GRC-106, medium antenna for the RT-524 and small antenna for the VHF side of the 110 but the issue is that looking at the antenna it appears to me to be a dipole and figuring if it’s a dipole it won’t need a ground plane or radials but in seeing other beer can antennas think they may have had a ground plane attached.
> Anyone have any thoughts about if this would need a ground plane or not?
>  
> Ray F/KA3EKH
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