NSN identification

[rob love]

The same or similar antennas were (or are) still in use with things like sputniks and other mast type installations. No need to re-invent the wheel....you need lengths of copper tubing that assemble together. In the case of the 3 piece antennas, it may be just to be able to stow them into a smaller container or pouch, yet still achieve the same length overall when assembled.

[Bruce MacMillan]

Thanks guys. They must have come with the C42 sets I had. All that is long gone now. I've got enough 19 set rods but these may fit the AN/GRC-9.

Rob, it would be interesting to know what the current use is.

[David Dunlop]

Bruce.

Any chance they might be exactly 1 metre long sections?

There was an American sectional whip which was normally 3 metres total length, but could be stretched to 5 metres by adding two extra base sections. I think the individual sections had numbers MS-116, -117 and -118 assigned to them, but I don’t know if that was smallest to largest, or the other way around. It would fit a variety of US made military radio systems and used a course thread connection system between the three sections.

David

[Bruce MacMillan]

Yes David they are 1 metre long. I have a bunch of the US MS rods and they look identical and would probably fit. The question now is why would Canada rebadge ww2 aerial bits. It has the same label as Wayne's photo.

[rob love]

I looked into it further and they are still used on 2 current antennas: the OE-5025/VRC and the ground plane AS-5162/VRC. They are listed as historical use on OE5024/VRC antenna and an electronic warfare antenna group.