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" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] 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 > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
