Screwdriver antennas on military vehicles?

[990adv]

I recently saw some pictures of US military ground vehicles with multiple antennas installed. Some appeared to be militarized screwdriver type HF antennas. These antennas were four to six feet tall and a few inches in diameter. HF? Satellite? Wide band vhf uhf? One Hummer I saw had multiple discone antennas! I should add that most of these vehicles did have the low band vhf antennas in place that I am familiar with from my time in the military.

Any ideas? Feel free to point me to a website so I can read for myself.

Thanks

 

[iMONITOR]

Something like these?

Hi-Q Military Antennas
Hi-Q Military Antennas - On The Move / HF Mobile Antennas

 

[ipfd320]

Christ--I Can Only Imagine the Mortgage I Need for that Set-Up---LOL

 

[iMONITOR]

Christ--I Can Only Imagine the Mortgage I Need for that Set-Up---LOL

We already paid for them.

 

[WatnNY]

We called about a NVIS antenna from Hi-Q - over $16,000!!!

Mike

 

[mancow]

Maybe a COM201B. They look like that but are 30-88.

 

[kv5e]

We called about a NVIS antenna from Hi-Q - over $16,000!!!

Mike

Do you get a kiss or a "reach around" for $16K??!?!?!!?

 

[relay99]

Hahaha

"Hopefully Both!!"
Hahaha!

 

[prcguy]

Do you have any links to pictures? There are many antennas used on military vehicles with your description. Mancow identified one possibility being the Cobham COM201 series covering 30 to 90MHz and other models covering 30 to 512Mhz. There are many fat ones made by First RF for IED jammers. The frequency ranges of their specific models are not advertised but some cover from 100MHz to 6GHz and range from 3 to 6ft tall and up to maybe 5" in diameter.

I recently saw some pictures of US military ground vehicles with multiple antennas installed. Some appeared to be militarized screwdriver type HF antennas. These antennas were four to six feet tall and a few inches in diameter. HF? Satellite? Wide band vhf uhf? One Hummer I saw had multiple discone antennas! I should add that most of these vehicles did have the low band vhf antennas in place that I am familiar with from my time in the military.

Any ideas? Feel free to point me to a website so I can read for myself.

Thanks

 

[990adv]

I went to the Cobham website. Some of what I saw looks like the AV 460 among other antennas. On the Cobham website their was a link to a You Tube video. Then from there I am finding all kinds of stuff. Thanks for the links prcguy.

Now this leads me to wonder about the tactical usage of Satcom. Is it a distance issue back to command or a terrain issue that Vhf low will not work? This is interesting to me, I need to do some more investigating.

 

[prcguy]

Take a look at the antenna on the HUMVEE in this link, its a broad band jamming antenna for IEDs.
Custom RF Design & Flexible, Affordable Production - FIRST RF

There is a lot of UHF satcom used from vehicles using various forms of a cross dipole sitting about 1/4 wavelength off the vehicle. Satcom gives the user very reliable comms over half the globe. VHF lo band is used for ranges out to maybe 30mi mobile then HF or satcom is used.

I went to the Cobham website. Some of what I saw looks like the AV 460 among other antennas. On the Cobham website their was a link to a You Tube video. Then from there I am finding all kinds of stuff. Thanks for the links prcguy.

Now this leads me to wonder about the tactical usage of Satcom. Is it a distance issue back to command or a terrain issue that Vhf low will not work? This is interesting to me, I need to do some more investigating.

 

[990adv]

I see the Hummer on the First RF page. The thick antenna on the rear is another view of what I was curious about.

During my service in the military I never saw anything like that. I was a Combat Engineer then Indirect Fire Infantryman then Medic. Never was I that far away from the rest of the Company or in a place where we needed sat comms or HF. Low band Vhf was sufficient. While I was the NCO over the gun line in a ground mounted 4.2 inch mortar platoon we were issued handheld radios that I would use to talk with the FDC and to each individual gun. FDC would talk with the forward observer using a PRC 77. I would listen to the FDC/FO conversation using an amateur radio I had so I could give the gun crews a heads up on changes to the gun or round so we could fire as quickly as possible. That is about as complicated as radio got for me.

I am glad our service members are given equipment they need and technology is put to use for our military.