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Early Electronic Antennas

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. Here are articles about early electronic antennas. Here are some of the antennas used before World War Two:

American Antennas

RCA Field Strength Test Antenna
Don Lee Antenna (1939)	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. Here are more details , an article in Service magazine, and an ad in Lafayette Radio 1940 catalog.
From 1942 catalog
This is an earlier RCA antenna, probably for use with their 1936 field trials Courtesy of Darryl Hock
Service, September 1939
Lafayette Radio 1940 catalog
General Electric HT-8 and HT-10
Tel-Tech

British Antennas

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