In article ,
Dan Jacobson wrote:

Hmmm, don't see much these days on this 100 year old concept:
http://www.rexresearch.com/squier/squier.htm "trees --- all trees, of
all kinds and all heights, growing anywhere --- are nature's own
wireless towers and antenna combined."

Perhaps wire is cheap these days so there is little practicality left
to his idea?

His arrangment sounds a bit like a shunt-fed antenna tower. Perhaps
the "brushy" nature of the top of a tree makes it behave a bit like a
"fat" dipole, with the broad bandwidth the page speaks of?

One limitation of these is clear from the article - they're seasonal.
When winter comes and the sap is gone down into the roots, the
antenna's performance degrades quite badly.

Hmmm... I wonder... would QRO operation on a sugar maple in April
leave you with a bucket full of maple-flavored Fizzies?

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