[Milsurplus] Horizontal loop on German vehicles

[Hubert Miller]

NVIS HF would have been one way to do it, but that would have included also a lot more range than tank radio nets needed,
and that wouldn't have been an advantage, and maybe a drawback. Think of a command Panzer radio, 30WS transmitter
and MWEc receiver, 1 - 3 MHz, 30 watts transmitter, antenna a 10 foot mast with capacitive hat. That's not a formula for
DX contest prizes, but it will give good ground wave coverage over variable European terrain.
I have this pair, and it's wonderfully built equipment, probably overbuilt, but I am concluding I really have no interest in 160
meters. I like the skywave frequencies much better, more fun, I think. Plus it dawned on me that my earthly lifespan is not
unlimited. There is a YouTube video where that Norwegian ham demonstrates the M.W.E.c. receiver. It has really nice tuning
scale display and a variable selectivity crystal filter.

The real nail in the coffin of the "German loop antenna" myth is another German manual which explains how to fabricate a
"frame antenna" on top a truck. This antenna is just wire laid back and forth across the truck roof. No loop action there.
The manual title is something like "Measures for extemporized radio truck", but auf Deutsch, of course.

I have another pair, the 20W.S. and Ukw.E.d.  I told my brother he could sell them for me, but when I looked them over last
August, I said, "Let me think about that for a bit". Tunes 11 - 10 meters with a really nice tuning dial, and I was immediately
thinking of CB and 10 meters. I sold a bunch of the smaller Panzer 9 meter radios and still have a stack of them to sell off.
Including the radio operator's junction box, which is so much harder to find than any  radio. As with any radio and its
accessory items.
-Hue Miller
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