[TowerTalk] Laying out radials around a stone fence

[Joe Giacobello, K2XX]

Yea! Verily!

> Stan Stockton <mailto:wa5rtg at gmail.com>
> Sunday, May 13, 2018 4:32 PM
> I would stake them down at base of wall, go up and over the wall, 
> stake them down on other side and continue out.
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> Stan, K5GO
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> Kevin Shea via TowerTalk <mailto:towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sunday, May 13, 2018 3:57 PM
> Now that the glacier has receded from Wisconsin, I want to put in 
> radials around my 80' AN Wireless tower (free standing no guy wires). 
> About 20' out on an arc of about 75 degrees I have an old stone wall. 
> It's not high but has huge glacial boulders which really can't be 
> moved. My radials will be about 100' long (some a bit longer some a 
> bit shorter). They will be buried using a trencher designed to bury 
> invisible dog fence or lawn sprinkler pipes. I will likely go down ~3" 
> using 15 gauge solid enamel copper wire (got it an auction of a 
> transformer mfgr going out of business).
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> My question is: should I run the 20' radials out and end them at the 
> wall, and the radials at the end edges of the wall (either side of the 
> 75 degree arc) connect those to a wire (forming a chord - parallel to 
> the far side of the stone wall) and then connect radials to this cord 
> and continue those radials out another 80-100'?
>
> Hard to explain without a drawing. I would also mention that the 
> ground falls away from the tower in this direction, probable down 25' 
> from the base of the tower. This is into a woods and the soil is very 
> rich and should be a good conductor.
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> 73,
> Kevin N9JKP
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