Topband: Edger for burying ground radials ?

[Dave Harmon]

I wrote a longer post earlier but it looks like it got moderated so I will
just say that my radials are stapled to the ground and I mow the area that
has radials....a neighbor gets the rest of the hay for free. If I need to
expand with more radials on another antenna I can mow that area too....
Whatever it take to not have to bury the radials and still have a properly
operating antenna.

Regards

Dave Harmon
K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
Sperry, Ok.

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On Behalf Of Craig Clark
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 3:36 PM
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Subject: Topband: Edger for burying ground radials ?

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:29:01 -0600
From: Ed Stallman <n5dg at airmail.net>
Subject: Re: Topband: Edger for burying ground radials ?
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Thanks to everyone that replied with your experience using an edger 
and the methods used placing the wire in the ground. Many are saying 
to staple and the grass will cover them in the spring. I would like 
to do it that way and have tried with a 40m vertical. What happened 
is when the guy cuts the hay, all is fine but then when he rakes my 
copper is somewhere in that roll of hay. The ex pence for the edger 
is more then I would like to spend, thinking I can sell come spring.

Lots if good information from the group , thanks again for sharing

Ed N5DG


Ed, 

Hay fields are not the same as lawns. After you cut the hay and let it dry,
you run a tedder over it to fluff it up. The tines on the tedder will pull
the wire up as you have learned. The you have to "windrow" rake the hay and
again, the tines on the rake will pull even more wire up. I wouldn't be
happy to find wire twisted up in my in my bailer.

I have two hay fields I could use for radials but unless I bury the radials,
they are just going to come up.  

Craig K1QX





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