[TowerTalk] Earth Ground: How good is good enough

[Lux, Jim]

On 9/9/21 2:51 PM, Artek Manuals wrote:
> Jim et all
>
> One of my heroes of the late 20th century was Ed Demming a noted 
> statistician ( with a degree in EE of all things) who changed the way 
> the world (most notably the US and Japan in the 70's and 80's) looked 
> at and tried to use statistics to solve mass production quality 
> problems through design of experiments techniques. . One of Ed's 
> famous sayings was "If you cant say it with numbers..you don't 
> understand the problem".
>
> So I will say it AGAIN. What I want to do is measure the ground 
> resistance of a multi ground rod system in VERY POOR soils in my case. 
> WHY I want to know this number or what I intend to use it for IS NOT 
> relevant to the discussion at this point. Please don't get your cart 
> before my horse. 


One thing just occurred to me.. With cheap handheld VNAs, you could 
probably come up with a way to "survey" the soil properties over a large 
area. Crossed dipoles or loops might be the way to go. It's sort of like 
ground penetrating radar.