Wanted PRC-25 or PRC77 Radio

[Bruce_in_Oz]

The Dipole was the "Antenna, lightweight" a simple, but versatile piece of kit that could be "flown" as a horizontal or vertical dipole, Inverted "V" or a single, centre-fed "L" . A somewhat "longer" version was available for the HF radios.

The 292 is the big, adjustable ground-plane job on the tall mast with the "interesting" guy-line system. Can also be "launched" into trees, and suspended from a "string", but the trick is to not get it snagged. The variety of antenna elements supplied in the kit mean it can be used from the top of the HF band to almost the top of the VHF band.

"Coolest" HF antenna I ever used was a farm fence. Clamp the "active" leg from the transmitter to the top strand of a barbed-wire fence: (Does not work very well with fences using steel star pickets). The "ground" was a LONG piece of wire laid on the ground at right angles from the fence, (ideal in country where the soil is very dry, or when you don't want to attract "unwanted attention" by hammering a long, metal "ground-stake" into the dirt).