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Author Topic: Here's proof that you can load up anything for an antenna!  (Read 1751 times)
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« on: June 08, 2017, 07:04:45 PM »

I bring you the floraphone!

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-world-war-i-plan-to-turn-americas-trees-into-telephones

http://www.rexresearch.com/squier/squier.htm


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« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2017, 07:30:32 PM »

1972 Army tech report -
dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/742230.pdf
"Radio transmission and reception experiments in tropical jungle forest covered
terrains are described and the performance of conventional whip antennas is compared
with the performance of Hybrid Electromagnetic Antenna Couplers (HEMAC) in conjunction
with Jungle trees as antennas."
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