[TowerTalk] Laying out radials around a stone fence

[Charles Morrison]

Try these instruction videos for radial installations:
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvVozUbB3sU
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htgr3pvBr-I
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWj8Nz5DUg
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z35VlxK9gtE
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y8xpMuJcG0
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyRNKleyyg
Put it all down, then go get more.




On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 7:05 AM, Stan Stockton <wa5rtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> With that info I might be inclined to use the same amount of wire and put
> down 5 times as many 20 foot radials in that 75 degree span.
>
> Obviously there would be some amount of bend which would have no effect.
>
> Stan, K5GO
>
> > On May 13, 2018, at 9:58 PM, Don Moman VE6JY <ve6jy.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > An experienced local MW broadcast engineer and low band ham, VE6LO now
> SK,
> > did some experiments with radials on a 160m vertical he had with a yard
> > that also had obstacles.  Using a RF current meter (similar to the MFJ
> 854
> > I expect) he came to the conclusion that if a radial had to be bent to go
> > around an obstacle, you might as well not bother - as he found very
> little
> > RF continued past the bend.
> >
> > 73 Don
> > VE6JY
> >
> > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 1:22 AM Joe Giacobello, K2XX via TowerTalk <
> > towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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).
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 73,
> >>> Kevin N9JKP
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