"christofire" wrote in message
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Such a design also appears as a self-supporting HF receive antenna the
Navy
mounted on the forward gun mount. I
struggled to find a picture of a ship with one showing but no luck. The
elements were about five to seven feet long and arranged as the OP
describes.


USS Missouri http://www.kh6bb.org/photos2.html

Chris



Chris, that's the discone/cage, a transmit antenna with two individual
feedlines from the Radio Room. Some people call it the discage, as on the
website, but I never did.

The cage portion radiates 4 - 12 MHz and the discone portion radiates 10-30.
IIRC, it stands more than 20 feet high.

The antenna I'm trying to remember was receive only and was less than 6 feet
high. It had a shape that sort of resembled a squat wire basket.

Sal