Dear J.B. and LF, a deep well in high-impedance soil - add a long wire flat on the ground, and you could get a rather efficient (magnetic) earth-antenna! They've done it on a larger scale, at the Cla
Hi J.B., Here on top of a ridge, I've become quite 'well' acquainted with wells various. Ask me sometime about the dowser, how accurate he was, and why the well driller hates him. And me. Well heads
The wire you run to the well will be more effective than the well itself. For RF grounding, depth is no advantage. You want the return current to have as low a resistance path as possible near the su
Hello LFer's, The soil at my QTH is composed mostly of gravel, which makes getting a decent ground for RF purposes rather difficult for two reasons, driving in ground rods, and poor soil conductivity
Dear J.B., LF Group, I did some experiments a while back with different ground configurations; like several other people, I found that once a reasonable ground connection was in place, further additi
Yes, I have been using the 150mm (6") pipe in our well with quite good results. The pipe is 12m long and goes about 11 m (36ft) through soil and about 1m into the granite rock below (total hole depth
