[Lowfer] Embattled E-Probe

Tue, 14 Oct 2003 21:47:19 -0500

I was thinking if he has a blacktop driveway to lay down radials on the
driveway and then apply the sealer coating over them. Use the thick rubbery
kind so the wire would get buried in the tar. If it is cement, then run the
wires in the expansion grooves and run coating of crack sealer over them to
bury the wire. In the grass I would use a steak knife and slit the grass and
push the wires in the soil with a flat blade screwdriver. He could cover his
entire driveway, as long as it is blacktop, with chicken wire and seal over
that for a good screen, which would be weather tight. LOL!!! A driveway
could always be covered in galvanized sheet metal with all sheets soldered
together and then apply the driveway sealer over that to hide it from the
wife!!!

But a easy solution would be two wooden masts with an Ashlock loop suspended
between them & the hell with the ground plane.

Mike>WE0H

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On Behalf Of Bill Ashlock
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Embattled E-Probe

>Who has a good ground?  Except where irrigated soil here is dust dry
>down a few inches, and furthermore it's full of rocks - alleuvial fan
>from the nearby San Gabriel mountains.  Six foot ground rods driven in
>by hydraulic boring (hose at the top) show several hundred ohms between
>them!

Your ground conductivity is similar to mine. In Iowa I was intrigued at an
early age by the country telephones with the single wire running to the
houses plus ground rod. That wouldn't have worked in this area. We aren't as
dry as you are but even the damp sandy soil shows minimal conductivity
between ground rods.

No room to place radials below or above ground?

Bill A

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