Re: [IRCA] Copper/Radials

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:33 AM 6/4/2007 -0700, you wrote:


>Mike,
>
>Have you ever heard of a station running radials on top of the ground
>though? Around here, the soil is so soft, I can push a ground rod in
>halfway without a hammer even. But with copper going for so much today,
>a stations copper would be worth a small fortune. Both KAST & KKEE have
>their radials in the bay and I wonder if there are any left? The salt
>water hasn't been a help I am sure in 50 years or more. KAST may have
>installed some new ones sometime back, but I don't know for sure.
>
>73,
>
>Patrick
>

Patrick,

If a temporary BCB transmitting station is set up, it's common practice
to roll insulated radials out.

As Mike alluded, it's not good practice to bury radials deep. But
leaving them unburied obviously isn't a good thing.

Charles


   Charles A Taylor, WD4INP
  Greenville, North Carolina 


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