Topband: Radials in the desert

[Charles Moizeau]

The function of radials is to collect the radiation from your antenna that splashes on the ground and deliver it back to the antenna feedpoint for recycling.  As such, if you decide to trench into the hard subsoil, don't go deep.  Alternatively, you can lay the radials on top of that hard layer and rake small amounts of loose sand to barely cover it, and/or use markers to warn human foot traffic.


Charles, W2SH





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From: Topband <topband-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Mike Furrey <mikefurrey at att.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 11:55 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Radials in the desert

Once a driveway was in the way of radials ... a cement blade on a circular saw fixed that. That may work FB on soft sandstone.
73, Mike WA5POK

    On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 9:23 AM, MICHAEL ST ANGELO <mstangelo at comcast.net> wrote:


 Chet,

Have you tried digging a shallow trench with an edge trimmer? They are also known as edgers.

Mike N2MS


> On June 20, 2018 at 8:06 AM Chester Latawiec <chetlat at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Any suggestions on burying radials in the desert sands of Kingman AZ?  Radials placed on the surface just stay there and are constant tripping hazards.
> The desert sand is like rock.  The top 1/4 inch is loose sand but below that it's like rock.  You vertually need a pick axe to loosen the sublayer.  One option is to pick axe a shallow trench for each radial in the desert sun, but tripping over the radials would be a better alternative.
> Any suggestions?
> I'm really getting tired of tripping over the radials of Jess, AI9L's radial field.
> 73
> Chet VE3CFK
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