I just got back from a nine day missions trip to the southern Haitian
peninsula where we were getting a broadcast transmitter repaired and new
tuning unit installed.
They started rice farming around the 250 foot tower. As the farmers
removed dirt and encountered existing radicals they simply cut them. See
attached photo. You can see where they laid some new radicals. To the
right is where new radicals were laid a while ago.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Tue, May 14, 2019, 3:06 PM Gary Smith <Gary@ka1j.com> wrote:
> An observation to share about buried
> radials surfacing is, It surely has to
> happen and it's likely impossible to
> predict where & when they'll do that.
>
> I metal detect and sometimes in never
> plowed sites, find ancient coins near the
> surface and modern coins 12" down in the
> same area. It happens this way so often, I
> just can't reliably predict age by the
> depth on the detector screen.
>
> Some sections of buried radials will
> someday, probably surface.
>
> 73,
>
> Gary
> KA1J
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