{"id":7706,"date":"2024-02-24T06:54:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T06:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/catalog\/vhf-antenna-base-ba-558\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:59:57","slug":"vhf-antenna-base-ba-558","status":"publish","type":"catalog","link":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/catalog\/vhf-antenna-base-ba-558\/","title":{"rendered":"VHF Antenna Base BA-558 (AB-558\/GR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antenna base of three section whip vehicle antenna for auxiliary receiver, component of VRC-12 series &#8211; family of vehicular VHF radio communication equipment, used by all tactical echelons.<br \/>\nUsed by the US military from 1963 until early 1990s, designated AB-558\/GR.<br \/>\nUsed by the IDF during the War of Attrition (1967-1970), the Yom Kippur War (1973), the Peace for Galilee War (1982), the Security Zone Conflict (1982-2000) and the Second Lebanon War (2006).<br \/>\nThe antenna has three sections: lower section HAN-116, center section HAN-117 and upper section HAN-118; frequency range: 30.00 to 75.95 MHz; connected to the receiver by RF coaxial cable.<br \/>\nManufactured by several manufacturers, including Tadiran Israel, under license of Magnavox, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":528,"template":"","catalog_cat":[36],"period":[40,43,41],"class_list":["post-7706","catalog","type-catalog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","catalog_cat-tactical-radio","period-yom-kippur-war","period-peace-for-galilee-war","period-second-lebanon-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/catalog\/7706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/catalog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/catalog"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"catalog_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/catalog_cat?post=7706"},{"taxonomy":"period","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumkesher.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/period?post=7706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}