Topband: Measuring ground conductivity

[Pete Smith]

Several years ago, VE2CV sent a message to the Towertalk reflector in which
he talked about measuring ground conductivity by measuring the resonant
frequency of a low dipole, and then tweaking ground conductivity and
permittivity in a NEC-2 model until the model agreed with the measured
antenna.

I have an extra 40-meter dipole on the ground right now, and was thinking
of doing this measurement near the base of my tower.  Have others had
experience wth this method, good or bad?  If I did it, would the results
also be predictive at 160m?  

73, Pete N4ZR
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