[Elecraft] Re: OT Your Farm's Soil Electrical Conductivity

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

you lot think you've got problems - the survey doesn't even cover the  
UK - I'm not sure I've even got soil. And whatever I have got, I've  
only got about 75x40 feet of it!
-- 
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number  
of
hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo,
Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr., writer

On 22 Apr 2008, at 15:56, David F. Reed wrote:
> Keith,
>
> that is my "problem" as well; just last night I worked ZS6CCY on 75m  
> with my vertical, and could hardly hear him on the dipole.
>
> In short, it seems the opposite of what I would expect, since in the  
> last 4 months, I have worked over 90 countries on 80, including many  
> in Europe, Africa, Oceania, Asia, South and Central America.
>
> So I am figuring I just don't understand something, or I put out  
> enough radials to compensate and am not just heating the worms up.
>
> 73 de Dave, W5SV
>
> Darwin, Keith wrote:
>> Mine too.  Apparently my vertical won't work and I won't be able to  
>> work
>> FM5 using 10 watts (like I did last night).  I'll have to take the
>> vertical down and put up a dipole.
>>
>> Either that or I didn't do the tool right :-)
>>