[BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] verticals in woods vs. in a field

[Steve Katz]

> It would indeed. For all the interest in this, I'm really
> surprised no one has made any meaningful measurements. It is
> a very common question, and all we have for answers are wild
> guesses. Whoever does this and does this correctly would
> really be contributing a great deal towards answering a
> common question.
> 
> 73 Tom
> 
> --But, what is the question?  Is the question whether trees are conductive
> enough to be antennas?  Or whether they're conductive enough to be
> reflective?  Or whether they're absorptive?  And at what frequency?
> Wouldn't one expect these properties would change vs. frequency?  The old
> (1950-ish) RCA "Foliage Attenuation for Mid-Latitude Forests" work which
> is referenced pretty often (and I have a copy of it, somewhere) indicated
> foliage attenuation varied a lot with frequency and got really bad at UHF
> -- while being almost irrelevant at HF, in the same forest.  I don't
> recall ever reading a quantitative work by anybody after that old RCA
> study...  -WB2WIK/6
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