Aerials are strange things indeed, in the 1950s I had
a friend who was into short wave/ham radio and he
was able to speak to people in Canada, USA, Australia
and many other places very clearly.
One day in daylight he showed me his aerial/antenna
set up, it was huge, in his garden/yard, he had copper
winding wire, the stuff that you make a motor with, he
had two tall poles of wood at the bottom of the garden,
two large insulated hooks at the corners of the house
and lots of loops of the wire around all of them, one I
would think was about 120 yards round and he seemed
to have hundreds of them, inside where the radio was he
had a piece of plastic or bakelite rod that again was wrapped
in copper wire, he said that you can't have too much antenna
and when he plugged the outside section into has regular
radio, the reception was fantastic, this in the days when the
static was part of every programme, yet his was clear.
So maybe we should go back in time and wrap the trees in
copper wire, at the back away from traffic!
Mike.
