1944 C-15A-Wire-5 Restoration

[Chris Suslowicz]

Originally Posted by Robert Bergeron

Thank you Grant , thank-you Chris, very very usefull information.

One bag , aerial gear Canadian with content then .

I have all of the content in your list and the masts in both sizes , 20 ' and
34 ' .

Now the aerials , long wire . I have a box full of them , the longest being

260 ' in lenght no less !

What was a set of these comprised of and in what were they carried ?

I have no idea where they were carried, possibly in the Bags, Aerial Gear, or in a cupboard somewhere.

The set appears to be:

Aerial 70-ft No.1
Aerial 90-ft No.1
Aerial 110-ft No.1
Aerial 150-ft No.2
Aerial 185-ft No.1
Aerial 250-ft No.1

The frequency ranges that they can be used on are marked on the wooden board winders.

Later on these were replaced by the Aerial, 100-ft, No.5 which had insulators and shorting links to allow a range of frequencies to be covered.

The Canadian equivalent was the Aerial, Horizontal, 140-ft, 4-section, No.C1 for the WS52. I have two versions of this, an unissued one on the wood/metal drum winder with chain-link insulators, and a second one on a steel frame winder that looks to be American - this came in a kit with different antenna stays and the insulators for the aerial are separate strings of glass shells with a clip at each end. I'm not quite sure what to make of it.

Chris.