[TowerTalk] Fwd: ground,good or bad ?

[Hans Hammarquist]

 Hi John,
I believe you have a close to ideal situation regarding grounding. I wouldn't be surprised if some grounding rods into the clay would work well at RF. I would just use a "nine tail" groundplane. I have used that extensively at Fied-days. I have about 10 wires, 10 feet long that I spread out around my tent as a ground. Never had a problem. (I use a short ground rod for the generator as you need a good ground at 60Hz for that.)
I believe you have the right ground for a phased antenna and you will not need chicken wires to improve your ground.
73 de,
Hans - N2JFS
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: John <w5jmw at towerfarm.net>
To: TowerTalk at contesting.com <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, Mar 16, 2019 8:14 pm
Subject: [TowerTalk] ground,good or bad ?

I am wondering about nr of radials to run.I understand that over water you sometimes hurt things by adding radials over water…
At our new qth (3 yrs) I am finallyn putting up the vertical phased antennas for 80 meters.We live in an area that has clay down abt a foor to 6 inchs  below.Our water from ¼ in rain stays around for days.then the ground is moist for abt a week.We dug a trash burn pit abt 6 mos ago.Abt 6 ft deep by 10 ft…It is full of water..Our last rain was 4 sdays ago…it’s not draining well due to the clay.Is this considered a good ground? Are radials a good idea ?thanks,john w5jmw

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