Who makes this mobile antenna?

[Unit 148]

3:50 into this video on the yellow wagon;

Thanks

Unit 148

 

[2NC995]

I'm guessing its not off the shelf...

 

[midnight special]

homebrew mobile beam antenna looks like to me,,,

 

[Marconi]

They look like 55's Merlin antennas to me.

I have a model somewhere but not on a mobile.

EDIT added model

 

[AudioShockwav]

I agree with Marconi.

73
Jeff

 

[AudioShockwav]

There is a picture of one some were on the forum, mounted on top of a old long nose conventional If I remember correct.
Eddie he built a base antenna like this too..... Or am I thinking of something else?
73
Jeff

 

[Marconi]

Jeff, I built a base with the Signal Engineering GR45 and using the bottom of my Marconi 5X. I modeled the Merlin but never owned one. It was taller and the coil was different than the GR45, but they both used a similar idea.

I found both of these top loaded antennas with a coil right below, worked very well in spite of all the contrary claims reported back in the days. Jeff, the picture you noted was called the Immortal and it was a mobile versions with two coils, one in the middle and the other near the top...right below the Top Hat.

I found some old images of the Merlin laying on its side, but the pictures were not very good. All the pictures that Cajun Invader posted are lost links.

 

[AudioShockwav]

That is the antenna in the picture you posted that I was thinking of.
Thanks for finding that Eddie.


73
Jeff