HF Antennas on Huey Helicopters: Zig-Zag Design

[David Tanks]

  Interesting little detail about Zig-Zag antennas used during the Vietnam war.

David AD4TJ

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R. E. Klaus wrote

"They used zig-zag shaped end fed hf antennas on some of the Huey helicopters in Vietnam in the 60's and 70's.

They went down one side of the tail boom, around the back and back up the other side."

Yes, below are photos of starboard and port sides of Huey tail boom

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[Ray Albers]

I was curious about the ARC102 radio used with that antenna so I  Googled.  CW, AM, USB, LSB, SSB power 400W PEP. 2 to 30 MHz.

Ray K2HYD 

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