> Beverages don't work as well over salt water, or very highly
> conductive earth, and that's just physics, not poor construction.
Talking of that, any idea how conductive my soil might be? It's about 12" of
topsoil on a clay
base, the depth of which exceeds any holes I have yet dug. It's the sort of
solid Real Man's Clay I
could probably lever out with a spade, leave to dry in the sun, and build a
house from. If they's
have asked me, I'd have offered to make the heat-refractive tiles for the space
shuttle from it.
I know I really ought to measure it, and I have the design somewhere hereabouts
for the gizmo to
measure ground conductivity which I *will* build one day. And I may be lucky
enough to find
geological maps of this area at some point to find out what lurks beneath. But
for now, what do you
say: is topsoil-over-clay high, medium or low conductivity in the grand scheme
of things?
And, given that, what are the implications?
I have ~20 acres of the stuff, with access to hundreds more in the pine forest
surrounding our
clearing, so I'd like to plan some cracking antennas for Topband. The QTH is
basically a N/S ridge
about 200ft wide, topped with 80ft pines, with 45-degree slopes (too steep for
this farming novice
to risk a quad-bike on) to E and W.
What would the panel suggest?
73
Gary ZL2iFB
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