Topband: Testing Soil Conductivity

Art k6xt at arrl.net
Mon Jun 8 06:14:46 PDT 2009



Jim Brown wrote:
> 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. 
>   
....for example, here:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/m3/index.html
73 Art K6XT


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