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Originally Posted by D
Does anyone know what FM covers improvised and field expedient antennas? The Ranger Handbook has some but my copy is pre SINCGARS and now my platoon needs to upgrade training to mach our new equipment.
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You want FM 24-19 Radio Operator's Handbook. Unfortunately it is also pre-SINCGARS, but what you have to know is that any field expedient antenna unless it includes a fequency matching unit (possibly scrounged from a OE-254 feedcone) and a 4:1 balun, you can only use it in Single Channel mode.
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SGT Robert White
25U20, HHC 1/180th INF BN, OKARNG
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