[TowerTalk] Earth Ground: How good is good enough

[Artek Manuals]

I 've read a lot of articles over the years about ground systems and how 
to build a good one. Most of them ignore actual soil conditions and few 
talk about the differences between "DC/AC (Low Freq)/Lightning" and RF 
ground vs frequency

But how do I actually measure it ?  And once I have this number how good 
is "good enough"

Take my situation I live on ancient sandbar 65' above sea level In 
Florida . Now this is practically a mountain in Florida and the soil is 
so poor that below about 6" nothing but granular quartz exists, mostly 
not even roots, a desert with a lot a rainfall.  The soil is so soft 
that I can push the first 5' of a 10' ground rod in by hand. I often 
wonder why my house doesn't sink into it and from a phenomena called 
"sink holes" a  few house do.

So to coin a take on the old light bulb joke " How many engineers with 
10' ground rods does it take to make a good  ground (RF ground in this 
case@ 1.8 Mhz) and how will they know when they have enough 10' rods"

Dave
NR1DX


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