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[StartQuote] Your model is looking good Tom! The parts manual lists 2 types of antenna, a telescoping MM-435X and an unspecified 2 piece rigid. Here are the application notes for them: Sectional: No boats listed just a note stating Either can be used on any Elco boat - Interchangeable Rigid: PT's 486-533, 555-563, and 731-760 A 1942 Premax catalog lists a MM-435 as a 35' 5 section model. I don't know what the X designation in the parts catalog means. The 1943 Motor Torpedo Boat Manual [url]http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/PT-Manual/MTBM-4.html[/url] states: Antenna.--Whip type--20-foot vertical. Note that the above manual is for both 77 and 80 foot boats. Many Elco 80 images show an antenna definitely longer that 20 feet. The joint clamp collars on the telescoping antenna looked like this: [image]http://www.pt103.com/images/ptpics/8e01469u_Antenna.jpg[/image] Here's what I came up with for the telescoping antenna when collapsed and extended: [image]http://www.pt103.com/images/PT_Boat_Elco_103_Class_Bridge_And_Chart_House_Gridded_Stbd.jpg[/image] [EndQuote]
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