Topband: Trees And RF Poem

Mirko S57AD miroslav.sibilja at amis.net
Wed Nov 4 07:27:35 PST 2009


Excellent poem, Herb!

By the way, if I had a tower, I wouldn't just hug it but will try to 
have children with it LOL

73  Mirko, S57AD

Herb Schoenbohm pravi:
> With some credit to Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) "Trees" I ad the following:
>
> I think that I shall never see     
> A metal tower as lovely as a tree.     
>      
> A tree whose is high at least     
> For antennas to break the pile up beast     
>      
> A tree that looks out for hams all day            
> working DX for which they pray;     
>      
> A tree that may in summer wear     
> Many wires in the air;     
>      
> Upon whose bosom snow has lain;     
> Without reducing my antenna gain.     
>      
> Such poems are made by fools like me,     
> But only hams know how to use a tree.    
>
> Cheers,
>
> Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
>
> P.S. My name in German means "Beautiful Tree".....the "bohm" is the same 
> as "baum" in NE Germany so I just could not resist.
>  
>
>
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