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Originally Posted by Ron Pier
That looks like the standard 'Golf Bag' ground station set. Ron
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Part of one, anyway. The individual components go back a very long way and changed slightly over time. The canvas bag is "Bags, Aerial Gear, No.2 Mk.2, rods are Aerial Rods 'D', and so on. Chunks of it were still in service in the 1980s (the "Pegs, Aerial, 'A"' used with the guy ropes (which may pre-date Wireless Set No.1) and were still user with the Larkspur 27-ft mast to anchor the flat baseplate. The aerial rods were originally aluminium, but this later changed to steel (copper plated or not).
It has the advantage over the telescopic mast that you can divide the kit into two and make a pair of 12-ft masts to support a wire aerial. It has the disadvantage over the Canadian telescopic mast of being fragile, a pig to erect, and liable to collapse in a heap if one of the guy ropes gets broken.
Chris.
05-03-15, 22:06
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