[MRCA] [ARC5] Aircraft antenna questions

[Michael Hanz]

Here are a few data points.
- Mike  KC4TOS











On 1/9/2024 6:41 PM, Doran Platt wrote:
> OK. at my peril I offer the following. If the antenna in question is a 
> 1/4 wave vertical tapered blade with a "box" base. As I recall it has 
> an N connector.. maybe.  I believe, the painted, copper or brass glove 
> over the wood blade fully covered the blade down to the "box" but 
> insulated.  Again, as I recall there were two strips that provided 
> connection. There is a mounting bolt pattern for attachment through 
> the airframe.  My direct experience, as a neophyte, was in about 1958. 
> I recall paying a few dollars for mine. I also, actually, saw one 
> installed in a sedan outside the same ham store.  The gentleman had 
> cut a hole in the car roof. I saw it...  W3NJT. George Pasquale, owned 
> the store and was a reserve TWA radio op and navigator.
> Jeep K3HVG
>> On 01/09/2024 5:50 PM EST MARK DORNEY via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
>> wrote:
>> Anybody have experience with the AN/104 aircraft radio antenna used 
>> by the USN, USAAF and USAF ? I have one that I’d like to use on the 
>> TBM Avenger. The question I have concerns the way the antenna is 
>> built. On the example I have, the antenna is mostly made out of wood 
>> ( looks like oak ) with some sort of thin metal sheathing ( 
>> aluminum?) covering some of the wood. The sheathing appears to be 
>> very worn. The questions I hardware these: has anybody seen these 
>> antennas when they were new? How much of the antenna mast is covered 
>> with metal? If this metal is sheathing, how was it fixed to the mast? 
>> Does anybody have clear pictures of an unused AN/104 ?
>> 73
>> Mark D
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