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| Thread ID: 92680 | 2008-08-18 06:15:00 | What is this old radio antenna? | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 698357 | 2008-08-18 06:15:00 | Does anybody recognise this radio antenna? (www.imagef1.net.nz) They were quite common on old houses from the 1920's/30's. The base is ceramic (with a serial number even!) and about 10-11cm high, and the elements are bronze and 22cm long. They can occasionally still be seen on old houses that have not yet fallen into developers' clutches. I don't know what they were called, but brush antenna comes to mind. Extensive searching on Google has failed to bring up any information or an image, probably for want of the right search terms. They must have been reasonably efficient to supply adequate signal to the radios of those days and I plan to use this one as a signal source for my vintage radio workshop (garage) and I'm interested in the theory behind them. Cheers Billy 8-{) :help: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 698358 | 2008-08-18 07:03:00 | Just sent a email to a guy I know, who has a great deal of knowledge on older radios etc. Hopefully he can advise as to its real name. Stay Tuned ;) (Pun Intended) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 698359 | 2008-08-18 07:08:00 | From memory they were given many names, brush and broomstick were the most common. They mostly indicated that somebody was a bit gullible when faced with fanciful advertising. However, they were pretty useful for keeping birds off ornamental poles. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 698360 | 2008-08-18 07:55:00 | Why not try a different forum? like www.antiqueradios.com or something? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 698361 | 2008-08-18 07:59:00 | I reckon for shortwave radio. | apsattv (7406) | ||
| 698362 | 2008-08-18 08:05:00 | As I recall they were a gimmick. :) I think Lamphouse/SOS sold them for a short time before they realised a wirewove mattress was better. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 698363 | 2008-08-18 08:06:00 | Poor mans version of this: www.nitehawk.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 698364 | 2008-08-18 09:32:00 | Why not try a different forum? like www.antiqueradios.com or something? I have a few enquiries out on other forums I subscribe to in the vintage radio field, but I have much greater faith in PF1 people to come through with the goods. As an example, I have posted various queries on a UK forum, and done my share of helping others, but they are a very insular lot and if you are not one of the "names" they often don't bother to reply. PMs go unanswered as well. If I post the same question here, I can guarantee that somebody will try to help. That said, the question was novel enough to attract two UK replies, one calling it a lightning dissipator and the other recollecting seeing something similar on a house many years back. Cheers Billy 8-{) PF1 is best by far :clap |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 698365 | 2008-08-18 09:48:00 | That's an antennae? | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 698366 | 2008-08-18 10:04:00 | Seriously, I used to see these on top of some houses around Chch and always assumed they were the top end of a lightning rod. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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