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Topband: Finding buried radials

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Subject: Topband: Finding buried radials
From: "amdx" <amdx@knology.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:41:23 -0500
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>I need to put in a lot of trees this Spring, and don't want to accidentally 
>cut the wires while digging. What's the best way to locate Buried radials? 
>Cheap metal 
>detector? One of the electricians' wire finders? Others?

  I came across a neat way to find buried coax, should work for radials too!
Use a portable radio tuned to a station, rotate the radio to get a null, then 
as you move 
the radio over the coax (radial) it distorts the null and the station comes in. 
This worked
very well for my. 
               Mike


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