[NJARC] Tree Antennas

[Henry Sonntag]

Hi All,

I just read the interesting article in the February issue of "The Jersey
Broadcaster" on tree antennas by Marve Beeferman. In that article is
mentioned some work done in Panama and described in a 1975 article in the"
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation" but the authors names were
not mentioned.

 I worked at Ft. Monmouth from 1971-1981 and while there I had the pleasure
of meeting Kurt Ikrath who worked mostly on antennas. It sounded to me that
he may have been involved in this effort.  I also remembered that there was
a test station located in Panama used by some of the personnel at the Fort.
So I decided to Google "tree antenna work Panama" and came up with a link
to an ECOM R&D Technical Report by Kurt Ikrath, et. al. describing this
work done in Panama: www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/742230.pdf . The
title is " PERFORMANCE OF TREES AS RADIO ANTENNAS IN TROPICAL JUNGLE
FORESTS -(PANAMA CANAL ZONE EXPERIMENTS)
This report describes their effort on tree antennas and most likely these
individuals were the authors of the IEEE paper.

Henry Sonntag W2HES

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