"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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On 26 Sep 2006 01:30:44 -0700, "
wrote:


There was some discussion of this in this group about 8 - 10 years
ago. Most thought it was absurd. Some thought it was possible. None
considered it very effective. One reported experience (and he was
thoroughly mocked). The tree was treated as a vertical radiator, and
was fed against ground and into a nail to penetrate to the conductive
fiber. Some form of matching was generally necessary.

The absence of discussion in the intervening years would suggest this
idea is not one to be taken very seriously.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


The Livewire Yahoo Group had some discussion of this a year or two back. I
think it was a kind of spinoff of their experiments with Ionic Liquid
Antennas. If you are interested enough they probably have all that in their
archives.

Harold
KD5SAK