Topband: Trees And RF - Suggested Test

[Kenneth D. Grimm, K4XL]

Edward Swynar wrote:
> This discussion raises its head every year at around this time, and every
> year I scratch my head in wonder about it all.
>
> Just what IS a good alternative to supporting a wire antenna anyway, if
> trees are all so nasty & evil...? Is it a steel grounded tower, maybe...? Or
> perhaps a helium-filled balloon...?!
>   

Yes.  :-)

> What is it about a tree that makes it so undesirable anyway...? The fact
> that it's lossy at RF...? A metal tower firmly imbedded in the ground would
> surely have far less loss in that regard than a tree---but I'm reminded here
> about all of the old admonishments regarding the placing of extraneous metal
> objects in the field of any antenna...
>   

A metal tower firmly imbedded in the ground makes a great antenna fed 
with a gamma or omega match, or used as part of a folded umbrella 
(folded unipole).

> Y'know what...? Mother Nature put the arbor glen on my property for more
> reasons than simply to admire, as I see it...so I'm with Herb: to heck with
> the tests! I have "green" / natural sky-hooks on my property, and I fully
> intend to keep on using them.
>   

Go for it!

> Amen! Hi Hi
>
> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>
>
>   
>
73,

-- 
Ken K4XL
k4xl at arrl.net

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