[MRCA] Memorial Day antenna
Tim
timsamm at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 13:19:36 EDT 2018
I usually carry a few pieces of bamboo for that sort of situation.
"Improvise, adapt, overcome". It surely was used operationally! A short
piece of black rubber vacuum hose for insulation at the radio end of the
wire would keep everyone happy. An SCR-284 can produce a considerable
burn...especially when driving a halfwave wire.
Tim
N6CC
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 5:49 PM, Mkdorney via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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