[Milsurplus] Tree Antenna

Richard Arland richard.arland at verizon.net
Fri Dec 8 13:33:13 EST 2006


While stationed at RAF Mildenhall, one of the members of our church was a 
former member of the British SAS who served in Malasya. He told me that they 
(the SAS), in fact, did have a method where by a sort of "spike" was driven 
into a tree, and they could load their transmitters up using the tree as an 
antenna. I cannot remember whether or not they employed some sort of 
counterpoise (vines, maybe!!). He also said that they were not all that 
efficient.....From his tone, I would say he was being sarcastic....much the 
same as him refering to the sinking of the Titanic as being a "boating 
accident"!

A long-time friend of mine, and a "Green Beanie" for 24 years, described 
some very small, extremely light weight and rugged antenna wire that they 
shot into trees (didn't mention how) that they called "spider wire". About 
the only thing that I can find that is close to this stuff is PolyStealth 
#26 from The Wire Man. Anybody have any other info on "spider wire"?

73 Rich W3OSS

Subject: [Milsurplus] Tree Antenna


> So I was out to dinner with the woman friend last night, and she
> mentions that she has an artist friend doing something with trees as
> antennas. 



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