Topband: Finding buried radials

amdx amdx at knology.net
Sat Mar 17 13:41:23 EST 2007


>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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