Dear Mal, Gary, LF Group, ...and in their tunable RF amplifiers, etc., but as far as I am aware they did not make permeability tuned ferrite rod antennas... perhaps there is a Collins equipment exper
Jim Marconi Marine used two (app) 4 inch X 1.5 inch ferrite discs bolted inside the rotating inductor of the variometer , using machined tufnol bolts and nuts of course ! in the Ocean-span Tx , 3 X 8