[MRCA] Memorial Day antenna

[Mkdorney]

Here ‘ a question for the group. I’ll be using an AN-101 ( long wire antenna, issued as part of the BC-1306 radio set) long wire antenna in an Inverted L configuration with the BC-654 radio.  I have a tree to tie off the far end to. What I need is a non-conducting pole close to or attached to the WC-52 that keeps the wire antenna in the air until it reaches the truck, and also allows me to run the antenna into the radio, mounted just behind the assistant driver’s seat in the cargo bed, without the wire touching anything before the connection to the radio. My questions are thus 1) was there any issue pole that did this, or did GIs just use what they could find, and 2) would running the wire inside a three foot section of rubber hose as the wire comes close to the vehicle effect transmission/ receptionist adversely. 

Being that the set up is being done at a display at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Home and Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY, doing some cobbed up job of putting up an antenna is out of the question.  Fiberglass cammo net poles are out, since they weren’t yet in existence before 1945. I was thinking of using a wooden staircase bannister as a “flagpole” to do the job. Before I do that, though, I wanted to see if anybody knew of some official, issued pole that did the job. 

The instructions for the AN-101 antenna specially say not the let the antenna touch anything like tree branches when stringing the antenna that would grounding it.  I want to use the section of hose, which would certainly have been available in 1945, to keep anything or anybody from coming in contact with the wire antenna near the vehicle.  The only place I should have to worry about that is the area close to the truck where the radio is mounted in the vehicle. 

Mark
WW2RDO

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