[Antennas] Vertical

Sun Nov 27 00:37:07 EST 2005

> Yeah leave the "salt" for your thanksgiving dinner and use a real
> engineering solution here... That is unfounded witchcraft. Elevated
> radials are great if you have the space for them (read that: get them
> far enough off the ground that you won't trip over them/ behead
> yourself/ they don't get caught in the mower/ etc.)... Of course 200+
> buried radials works too (hundreds of AM stations can't be wrong!).
>But, there are some of us that can not use either buried radials or elevated 
radials.....
So, what would you suggest I do to get something resembling a ground in very 
heavy clay soil? Not being sarcastic....really need to get a better RF ground on my 
station.
Soil around here is glacial deposit....very heavy clay content and lots of rocks....took 
me a little over 2 years of pounding with a sledge hammer to drive 6 feet of a 10 
foot ground rod....will not go in any more and can not pull it out. Even 15 4-foot 
ground rods connected together is not giving me a reasonable RF ground.
Any ideas on how to improve the grounding situation? Besides moving.....wish that 
was a viable option, but the bank account has vetoed that one.....
Mel
N7OKL