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Outdoor antennas are required for good reception of TV. Before the
war, TV stations had limited transmitter power, and receivers had
poor sensitivity, so an antenna was almost a necessity. Click for
articles about prewar antennas. Here are some
of the antennas used before World War Two:
American Antennas
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Don Lee Antenna (1939)
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Andrea Teleceptor (1939) |
| RCA antennas. Top left is a stacked dipole, in the middle is a stacked dipole
with reflectors, and at the bottom is a "double V". Right is a
photo of the stacked dipole with reflectors. Click for more details
or for ad in 1940 Lafayette
Radio catalog. |
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This
is an earlier RCA antenna, probably for use with their 1936
field trials (Courtesy of Darryl Hock)
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From Radio & Television, July
1940
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Tel-Tech |
British Antennas
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