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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?
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Jeff
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.
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