Antenna pictures

[Yuri D.]

Is the kurbelmast created by the following manufacturer of war-time production? "Humboldt-Deutz AG (Werk Berlin Tempelhof) "

Thank you,

Yuri

[B. Dietz]

Simply beautiful.

[Yuri D.]

Funksammler,

Is the kurbelmast created by the following manufacturer of war-time production? "Humboldt-Deutz AG (Werk Berlin Tempelhof) "

Thank you,

Yuri

[Funksammler]

Sorry for the delay, I had to dig out the Kurbelmast from behind some other stuff in my workshop.

Manufacturing code "knz", not sure which factory that is. Does anybody have their German ordenance code book handy?

regards,

Funksammler

[Kris]

Fantastic antenna's, great work and thank you for the nice photography and explanation.
I wonder, did you do swr or other measurements on these antenna's and set-ups ? I'm curious to see the results

[Jan7]

.....Manufacturing code "knz", not sure which factory that is. Does anybody have their German ordenance code book handy?........Funksammler

Funksammler.....I don't find this code, but in http://www.trizna.ru/galerea/albums/...ance_codes.pdf (46 pages) PDF


"kzn Kienzle Uhrenfabrik GmbH, Dammerkirch plant"





Jan.

[Yuri D.]

Looks like the codes for that maker are:

bjm
atl

Yuri

[Val]

Funksammler, for what frequency range that Sternantenne was?

[Funksammler]

The Sternantenne was predominantly used with Low and Medium frequency sets. Medium wave was about 1 -3 Mhz, Low frequency < 1Mhz.

It is actually not the Sternantenne that radiates the radio energy, it acts as a capacitive top, allowing more RF current to flow in the wire that leads up to it. So the connecting wire from the set to the Sternantenne is the actual antenna.

The "normal" sternantenne ("Antenne Stern a") was typically used with medium wave sets such as the 30 W.S.a (either with a Torn.E.b or Mw.E.c as receiver) or the 5.W.S with Torn.E.b.

There is also a extendable version ("Antenne Stern c") where the radials of the Sternantenne can be lenghtened to 2.5 meters, which was used with Low frequency sets such as the 100 W.S and 1.5 Kw.S.a1.

Before the war the wire strung "umbrella" antenna ("Schirmantenne") were the norm with most Long and Medium wave sets. The Sternantenne was phased in early in the war, I think due to the demand of reconnaisance vehicles where the speed of deploying the antenna was important. Eventually the Sternantenne would replace the umbrella antenna on most vehicle- borne sets.

regards,

Funksammler

[Yuri D.]

Funksammler,

Is the kurbelmast created by the following manufacturer of war-time production? "Humboldt-Deutz AG (Werk Berlin Tempelhof) "

Thank you,

Yuri

[Funksammler]

Not sure Yuri, I can only find references to postwar examples made by this manufacturer. Not impossible that they just continued wartime production. I can't find an ordinance code for the Berlin factory either, so who knows it was "knz"....

When I recover my ordinance code book I will hopefully find some answers.

regards,

Funksammler

[Tornfuté]

codes

hello
knz is sudetendeutsche F. Piechatzek werke freiberg/ ostsud
bjm is klöckner humbold deutz köln
atl is klöckner humbold deutz ulm
pierre

[Asbjørn]

That's some nice antennas!

The base of the first one reminds me of this piece, can anybody confirm that it is part of an antenna?

[Funksammler]

The spirit level is the same type as used on the Kurbelmast, however your assembly doesn't look like an antenna part. Did it come off a bunker?

regards,

Funksammler

[Dufleuve]

Looks more like a base for a bunker optic.
I remember PzBf2 or 5 was using this kind of base.