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THE splendid paper read by Mr. Barfield at the meeting of the Institution of Electrical Engineers on Dec. 7 last, and referred to in NATURE of Dec. 30, 1927, p. 967, throws light upon the hitherto obscure mechanism of the damping by trees on the propagation of radio waves. In fact, every tree acts as a B.C.L., absorbing part of the energy falling upon the antenna, and re-radiating the rest.
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ROLF, B. Woods and Wireless. Nature 121, 539–540 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121539a0
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