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Old 14th May 2014, 9:58 am   #14
Phil G4SPZ
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Default Re: Whatever's this? Strange 'radio aerial'?

It certainly is a nice artifact and one that the museum will display with interest.

To paraphrase from the donor's letter: "The antenna was mounted on the side of an old cottage near Stroud. I'm guessing it might be from the 1940s although it may be much older than that... the conical design may have been a bit of a gimmick..."

The attached thumbnail shows the actual antenna in-situ before it was removed.

You make a very valid point Dave, and we have two choices. My preferred choice would be to actually fix this aerial on the radio shop building, and use it. We currently don't have an outside aerial and this would be ideal, and the age of the aerial would match the building. The other choice would be to try to restore it to showroom condition and display it in the shop, as an article that would have been on sale in 1939, but that's more difficult. Apart from the work involved, which would destroy its provenance along the way, we don't have the box it would have been sold in.

Phil
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