[ARC5] BNC Plants

[David Stinson]

>in Hawthorne, CA, and there hanging on the wall >very realistic plastic palm tree, about 3 ft tall,
>with a BNC connector where the roots should have been.? >What was that all about??

When I was a tiny little cog in the
Mighty Defence Machine and UFO Parking Garage
north of Las Vegas, we used some of these.
It was a ground-mounted VHF ground plane,
with hard rubber molded around it to look
like a desert plant.

It was the antenna for an intruder detection
sensor which reported to a central repeater.
They didn't work as well as a regular 1/4 wave
Mobile antenna mounted on a quarter-wave-square
piece of galvanized, so they weren't around long.
A mobile antenna in the sage brush was all but
invisible to the roads and trails, while this
thing couldn't really pass a close eye-balling.

Besides- the UFO guys kept digging them up.
They said the hard rubber was tasty.

73 Dave AB5S


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