USS North Carolina BB-55 - Antennas
Under construction - more to come

10/41 blueprints

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Transmitting Antenna plan - aft
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Transmitting Antenna plan - fore
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Transmitting Antenna plan - notes
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Transmitting Antenna plan - notes
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Transmitting Antenna - isometric
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Radio 2 Transmitter Trunk Layout
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Transmitting Antenna Trunks from Radio 2 to deck - Transmitters listed according to 10/41 blueprint

5 starboard side trunks (listed fwd to aft)
  • T3L (TBU - 1000w MF xmtr)
  • T4L (TAJ-8 - 500w LF xmtr)
  • T5H (TBK-7 - 500w HF xmtr)
  • T7L (TAQ-5 - 2000w MF xmtr)
  • T9H (TBA-3 - 1000w HF xmtr) 

4 port side trunks  (listed fwd to aft)

  • T2L (spare)
  • T1H (TBM-4 - 500w HF xmtr)
  • T6L (TAJ-8 - 500w LF xmtr)
  • T8H (TBA-3 - 1000w HF xmtr)

T2L, T10H, and T11L are spare patch trunks which run through Radio 2 - I don't know the topside location of Trunks T10H & T11L yet.

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View looking aft toward smokepipe 2

The rounded structure that these trunks come up through is the cowl for the air intake vent for engine rooms 2 & 3
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left side of photo - T3L, T4L, T5H
right side of photo - T2L, T1H
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35' whips mounted on smokepipes

whip T-5 on forward mount of aft smokepipe connects to T5H (TBK-7)

whip T-1 on aft mount of forward smokepipe connects to T1H (TBM-4)

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Transmitting Antenna Trunks from Radio 3 - four located aft of Conning Tower - no photos yet

Trunks - A11L, A12H and two others?

Under construction - more to come