Topband: K1FZ ground rod difficulty

[Jim Brown]

Rob Sherwood published on this in Ham Radio in the '70s. I included his 
ideas) with credit, of course, in my tutorial piece on "Getting On 
160M," which is really a summary of other peoples' good work on antennas 
and radials/counterpoise systems.  http://k9yc.com/160MPacificon.pdf Rob 
had a small strip of exposed earth between a driveway and his house, and 
laid a strip of galvanized welded fencing to serve as a counterpoise. He 
says he worked JA with it (from CO).

I guested at PJ4A several years ago and helped string one of the 
Beverages. The soil is hard rock (volcanic?) so the termination was a 
few 25 ft pieces of wire laying on the ground. It worked.

73, Jim K9YC

On Wed,4/6/2016 12:57 PM, donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
> Ground rod problems aren't unusual, among the many excellent
> alternatives is to use chicken wire laid on the ground or slightly
> buried. One of my former employers built hundreds of Beverage
> antennas using chicken wire ground mats laid on soils with solid
> rock just a few inches below the surface.