On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:59:14 -0600 (CST),
(Richard Harrison) wrote:

Old Ed wrote:
"---trees could be used to support a monopole."

Yes, but in supporting a monopole, the tree is more or less parallel,
near, and lossy. Horizontal dipoles are somewhat perpendicular to trees
which are likely to be in the nulls of the dipole pattern.

Hi Richard,

It is equally arguable that trees. being at the distal, high potential
ends of a source, present inconvenient shorting paths to ground. They
are much larger than any expected dipole support by being very wide,
and randomly forked - dare I say a fractal load?

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC