Antenna having combined support and lead-in

Claim 1

AN ANTENNA FOR ULTRA-HIGH-FREQUENCY OPERATION AND THE LIKE, HAVING, IN COMBINATION, A PAIR OF RIGID CONDUCTORS HELD SPACED A PREDETERMINED VERTICAL DISTANCE APART IN A VERTICAL PLANE, FIRST AND SECOND PLURALITIES OF HORIZONTAL DIPOLE ELEMENTS LYING IN CORRESPONDING FIRST AND SECOND VERTICALLY SPACED HORIZONTAL PLANES CONTAINING THE RESPECTIVE CONDUCTORS, THE DIPOLE ELEMENTS EXTENDING FROM OPPOSITE SIDES OF EACH CONDUCTOR AT SUCCESSIVE POINTS THEREALONG WITH DIPOLE ELEMENTS CONNECTED TO ONE CONDUCTOR EXTENDING IN OPPOSITE HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONS TO THE CORRESPONDING DIPOLE ELEMENTS OF THE OTHER CONDUCTOR, THE LENGTH OF THE DIPOLE ELEMENTS SUCCESSIVELY INCREASING FROM ONE END OF THE CONDUCTORS TOWARD THE OTHER END THEREOF, MEANS FOR CONNECTING A PARALLEL-WIRE TRANSMISSION LINE TO THE SAID ONE END OF THE CONDUCTORS AND MEANS FOR MOUNTING THE ANTENNA COMPRISING A FURTHER PAIR OF RIGID DIVERGING CONDUCTIVE EXTENSIONS OF SAID CONDUCTORS MECHANICALLY SECURED IN RIGID SPACED-APART RELATION AT AN END THEREOF, THE SAID DIVERGING CONDUCTIVE EXTENSIONS BEING PROVIDED AT THE SAID OTHER END OF THE PAIR OF RIGID CONDUCTORS AND EACH COMPRISING A PAIR OF HORIZONTALLY SPACED CONDUCTORS TERMINALLY PROVIDED WITH A VERTICAL LOOP, AND THE SAID MECHANICAL SECURING MEANS COMPRISING MAST-STRAPPING MEANS FOR STRAPPING THE SAID VERTICAL LOOPS, AND THE DISTANCE OF THE SAID MAST-STRAPPING LOOPS FROM THE SAID OTHER END BEING COMPARABLE TO THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE LONGEST AND NEXT-TO-LONGEST PAIRS OF DIPOLE ELEMENTS OF THE ANTENNA.