Stew
I think most of the earlier concern about radial crossing was for
elevated radials. Lets say you had 16 on/in ground radials to begin
with. Adding say another 8 or 16 on top of those would be very unlikely
to have arcing problems at the crossover points if any.
On other fronts in my book it is always prudent to measure your feed
point impedance before adding more radials . Then remeasure every 4
additional radials or so. Once you get to the point tha there is very
little change your ham radio budget and time would be more productive
spent elsewhere. The history on the internet has dozens of articles
showing how the laws of diminishing returns apply to ground mounted
radial lengths and numbers. Also bear in mind while interesting reading
everyone's soil conditions are different so best in my book to do your
own measurements as you add radials.
Good luck copper plating your yard
Dave
NR1DX
On 11/23/2020 3:41 AM, Stewart Rolfe via TowerTalk wrote:
Any thoughts on adding additional radials to an existing system which
has long since disappeared into the sward? This would inevitably
involve a lot of random 'crossings' which I recall reading isn't a
great idea.
73,
Stew, GW0ETF
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