Topband: tree losses

[Mike Waters]

Bingo!  Just because the military does (or did) something with antennas
doesn't means it's good for us all to repeat.

There was a discussion some time back that a Beverage must make a good
transmitting antenna, because the military does it somewhere. I can vouch
for the fact that while we can indeed transmit on a Beverage and make
contacts with it, a vertical with a few radials makes a *much *better TX
antenna.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Tom W8JI <w8ji at w8ji.com> wrote:

> ... the few feet of wire in the matching system is probably the major
> radiator in the system ... Most of us already understand an insulated
> copper wire thrown over a tree is a far better antenna than the tree could
> ever be, and that removing the tree actually INCREASES field strength. The
> logical conclusion is the tree is much more a dissipative load than an
> antenna. After all, if a tree was even a marginally effective LF or HF
> radiator, we would increases in field strength from reflections rather than
> just absorption.
>