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RE: Basic questions, Ground Options, RSG benefit

Ted,
Sorry if I lost you with my "wish list" of conductive wet grounds.

Actually the Gulf of Mexico is perfect (top of the list)
All you got to figure out now is how to get power and people there.
Isn't Northern Texas pretty far from the Gulf ?
I spent a year in El Paso - Ft. Bliss.

In your backyard, the counterpoise is recommended.

Use as large as possible conductive (metal) sheet laying over the ground
(under the ground is better but harder)
objective to get as much capacitive & conductive coupling as possible to the
earth, etc.
(applied moisture will help)

Ideally place your TC in the middle of this sheet and fire away !,

otherwise connect a wide Cu strap from it to your TC located as close as
possible.
Your TC ideally has a metal sheet beneath defraying some peak current
locally. 

Regards, Dale

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Subject: RE: Basic questions, Ground Options, RSG benefit

Original Poster: Ted Rosenberg <TRosen1-at-Tandy-dot-com> 

Dale: In northern Texas, the ground is about 80-90% clay and the rest is
rock. If I put a shovel in my backyard, the most I'd dig is 3-4 inches
(maybe) before hitting something solid. The extensive ground network in this
part of the US is, in my opinon, highly impractical. I plan to use a cold
water pipe and hope it works well enough. And I sure don't know where you
find those salt water ponds. We call our local salt water pond The Gulf Of
Mexico <smile>.
Ted
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Subject: RE: Basic questions, Ground Options

Original Poster: Dale Hall <Dale.Hall-at-trw-dot-com> 

<snip>

1.) Grounding is often a compromise especially since
    I have a portable coil I take around to varying sites for demo's.

>My order of preference for grounding TC: 
> directly over a pond of salt water w/short Cu strap to immersed electrode 
> directly over a pond of salt water w/short Cu strap to immersed electrode
> directly over a pond of other water w/short Cu strap to immersed electrode
> close to pond of salt water w/min length copper strap to immersed
electrode
> close to pond of other water w/min length copper strap to immersed
> electrode 
> directly over moist soil w/short Cu strap to buried electrode(s)
> close to moist soil w/min length Cu strap to buried electrode(s)
> etc.