Topband: Blessed With Too Many Trees?

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Ive personally seen the results of HF to 2M QRO (usually legal or close to 
it) on trees when concentrated by yagis that were barely above them. Id be 
there as a visitor or doing tower/antenna work and sometimes tree trimming.
The top leaves and needles turn brown when they are close enough.

Of course there were no reports of signal attenuation since there was no 
reference to compare to. And that brings us full circle to feel good 
comments as seen on many forums.

I believe it has been established as fact on here that trees CAN attenuate 
RF, even on 160. The variables are many and as with ground systems there are 
no one size fits all rules.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Waters" <mikewate at gmail.com>
To: "topband" <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Blessed With Too Many Trees?


> This is also the impression that I have. I've read countless experiences
> over the years that indicated that trees were no worry on HF. But then 
> this
> thread came along.
>
> I have no other antenna to compare it to, but a tall oak tree supporting 
> my
> 160m inverted-L seems to have little (if any) effect on it.
>
> 73, Mike
> www.w0btu.com
>
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV 
> <olinger at bellsouth.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> There also remains the nagging idea that some species of tree could be a
>> lot worse than others for dielectric loss.
>>
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