Frame aerial on a wooden stand
The frame is a hollow rectangular tube, split in the middle and bended outwards. Bakelite switch and wire supports. The switch has three positions (Petites ondes, Moyennes ondes and Grandes ondes). Dimensions 68 × 28,5 cm. Made ± 1926. The maker is Établissement Barengolz, 51 Rue de la Harpe, Paris 5e. Barengolz made frame antennas, tuning condensors, variometers and measuring equipment. In the fifties the name of the company was Établissements M. Baringolz, 103 Boulevard Lefebvre, Paris 15e. The name was later spelled with an "i".

Detail
Picture from a French catalogue from 1927
showing a foldable frame antenna.

This page was last edited on 03.12.2016