Topband: Radials across a driveway and garage floor

[Shoppa, Tim]

The bottom of my 160M transmit vertical (actually more of a Marconi T) is roughly centered in the center of the lot... nestled right between house/garage/driveway. With the house in the center of the lot, and the T supported from the end by two fixed trees, there's not a lot of choice I have.

So about 1/2 of the radial field that I lay out in the winter, is currently just wire draped along garage floor and across the driveway. (I do a little better with radials on the ceiling of the basement of the house, coming out the sillplate on the other side to go back underground). My wife and kids and I trip over the wires even if I tape them down.

I'm trying to come up with a better solution than copper wire draped over garage and driveway. I'm thinking:

Metallic aluminum tape, or copper foil strips, on cement garage floor, painted over? Garage needs a paint job anyway.

Slit the asphalt driveway with a masonary saw for each radial, lay down copper radial in slit, seal the top? Driveway needs some attention too.

Any thoughts? I'm guessing here others try to align their ham radio projects so they look to the XYL like home improvements? :-)

Tim N3QE