Ground rod problems aren't unusual, among the many excellent
alternatives is to use chicken wire laid on the ground or slightly
buried. One of my former employers built hundreds of Beverage
antennas using chicken wire ground mats laid on soils with solid
rock just a few inches below the surface.
Antenna performance was excellent as verified by detailed
pattern measurements using XELEDOP battery operated
transmitter towed several hundred feet behind and below an
airplane.
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD0630092
73
Frank
W3LPL
----- Original Message -----
From: "william radice" <k4owr@outlook.com>
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 5:22:31 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: K1FZ ground rod difficulty
:::: At the risk of opening an avalanche of comments.......
Here's what I use. You can use it in a relatively shallow hole and it
works very well. This materiel is used by utility companies at the base
of power poles.
Here's the info on it: https://www.erico.com/category.asp?category=R2387
And here's a video of how to use it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHtIYboE8NE
I can only dig about 3 feet into my soil before hitting a solid rock
shelf...acres and acres of my property are like this and I have had
great results with this stuff!
BILL K4OWR
On 4/6/2016 11:04 AM, K1FZ-Bruce wrote:
> To be successful on 160 meters a ham should to be inventive.
> Like, if you can not drive a ground rod in due to local problems
> (rocks, neighbors, whatever)
> How about getting a truckload of added soil to bury the rod. Then
> plant flowers on the mound to make it a show piece? ( ; >))
> 73
> Bruce-K1FZ
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