[ARC5] BNC Plants

[MICHAEL BITTNER]

As suggested by Tom N3AJA, it was probably part of Operation Igloo White (Google it).  Mike, W6MAB



 
> On December 17, 2022 at 6:23 PM David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >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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