On 12/24/2020 2:21 PM, w5jmw@towerfarm.net wrote:
Jim,what about the crossing of the radials.Isn't doing that not
recommended?
That's primarily an issue with antenna arrays. You still want as many
runs of copper as practical radiating out from the base of each vertical
antenna.
Right now I can do either.I am confined to such a pattern
due to me antenna placement.I have a overhead power run alomg my east
fence and a metel fence along my west.I have already attached to both as
a ground.really more of a lightning dispersal path.
Yes, but there's a big inductor in series with the earth connections
that the fence makes, which defeats its purpose for lightning
protection. Above low audio frequencies, inductance dominates the
electrical impedance, and lightning is primarily an RF event, not a DC
event. The energy in a strike has a VERY broad peak more or less in the
middle of the AM broadcast band. The noise we OFs remember from
listening to the radio late at night are nothing more than the sum of
many thousands of lightning strikes, propagated to our antennas.
I might point out
that I do have pretty good soil.I have very dense clay in certain at abt
3-4 foot.It does stop water sippage to a point.Also we have an aerobic
septic system which the spray nozzles are located in thi same pasture.
Losses in the system will be lower with better soil conductivity.
73, Jim K9YC
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