Yes.
you have a very low water table. With winter rains however you may get a
much wetter bottom (I could have phrased that better ) at the deep end of
the wire - especially if it had a wide surface area at the bottom - old
copper hot water tanks are good. Why more than one wire? a length of
small-bore heating pipe would be better - you could pump water down it in
summer. or keep it connected to bottom of a rain-barrel so whatever you
collect in the rain barrel finds its way to the deep down copper tank
electrode.
Where do you get "a decent crossbow" ? I vaguely though they were illegal?
My arm aches from throwing plastic milk bottles full of water over trees to
the peril of my neighbours.
Bryan G3GVB
----- Original Message -----
From: Walter Blanchard <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 12:51 PM
Subject: LF: Ground system
Here's another oddity.
Next to my patch there's a 150ft (50m) deep well that has dried up and the
owner now intends to fill it in. He doesn't mind me dropping a few copper
wires down it before he does so. Question: is this a better use of 400 ft
of copper wire for earthing purposes than simply spreading it out along
the
ground as radials in the traditional way?
Re the tower - use a decent crossbow and you'll get over the top no
trouble.
I have a 200lb draw one that I once used to put a wire over a 50m mast and
it could have gone much higher.
Walter G3JKV.
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