"Then a wire can be attached to the nail and run down to the receiving apparatus. The radio waves which are in the air all around us at all times and passing through trees are diverted by the metal and made audible by this rather primitive setup.
Folks continued to experiment with natural antennae, hypothesizing that entire jungles could be turned into giant dual senders/receivers."
"They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers,"...
This controversial passage in the bible is thought by many to mean Christmas trees, but I really think it's referring this primitive antenna tree technology and the way it's evolved and been abused.