Somehow I stumbled upon this link today after work so I thought I'd share it here. I found it quite interesting.

http://w5jgv.com/tree_antenna/index.htm

 

Somehow I stumbled upon this link today after work so I thought I'd share it here. I found it quite interesting.

http://w5jgv.com/tree_antenna/index.htm

There was considerable research done on this during the Viet Nam War:
http://dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/742230.pdf

 

driving a nail into a tree was used around ww1 to use for a field expediant antenna. (when you dont have enough time to put up and take down and antenna.)