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** FROM : "Dave" <noone@nowhere.com>
"Myron A. Calhoun" <mcalhoun@sdf.lNoOnSePsAtMar.org> wrote in message
news:h8m283$m77$1@chessie.cirr.com...
> I've read a lot about radials: elevated vs. gull-wings vs. underground,
> how many (120/64/31/16/4/2/0), etc. After reading the following, maybe
> someone will tell me if I did right or wrong. This is long, but the
> nitty-gritty details might be necessary for a good answer.
>
> I recently erected a 20-meter vertical in my front yard with 16 equally-
> spaced, about-20-foot-long, UNinsulated radials (electric-fence wire)
> around its base starting at a metal plate and just laid on grass about
> 3 inches above the soil and "pinned" (with about 8-inch-long stiff-wire
> loops) to the soil at the ends to keep them taut/straight. The metal
> plate was "grounded" with a 2-feet-long metal rod driven into the soil.
>
> The antenna worked acceptably well, so I decided to make it more
> permanent (and the radials less-likely to be tripped over!-) by
> mowing the grass REALLY short and resituating the radials such that
> they are now only about an inch above the soil (and will soon be
> hidden below 2 inches of grass). I also "pinned" the radials a
> little more tightly to the soil once or twice along their lengths.
>
> While doing that, I realized that if I lengthened two of the radials
> by about 10 feet, I could connect them to 8-foot ground rods (at the
> bases of a tower and a flagpole) that were themselves connected (with
> thick, multi-strand, insulated copper wires that run from the tops of
> the ground rods horizontally about 10 feet and then 9 feet down) to
> a 75-foot-long Ufer ground that goes around about half of the
> foundation of my basement.
>
> My worry revolves around the fact that, while my radials are NOT *IN*
> the soil, they are pretty-well connected TO the soil, and two of them
> are connected to the best ground I could buy when my house was being
> built. Have I done wrong by grounding them, or should I have used
> INSULATED radials and NOT "pinned" them to the soil and NOT connected
> them to my Ufer ground?
>
> --W0PBV.
> --
> --Myron A. Calhoun.
> Five boxes preserve our freedoms: soap, ballot, witness, jury, and
> cartridge
> NRA Life Member & Certified Instructor for Rifle, Pistol, & Home Firearm
> Safety
> Also Certified Instructor for the Kansas Concealed-Carry Handgun (CCH)
> license
it sounds like you have done right.
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