Topband: Testing Soil Conductivity

[Jim Brown]

On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:54:11 -0400, allan1 dejazzd.com wrote:

>Is there an inexpensive way to check for soil conductivity or lack thereof?

There are maps that show soil conductivity in the US. One is part of the FCC 
rules for AM broadcasting. That's important to the FCC only because it has a 
strong effect on ground wave propagation on the AM broadcast band. 

Why do you care about soil conductivity?

73,

Jim K9YC