On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:19:50 -0400, Mike Coslo
wrote:

|Wes Stewart wrote:
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| On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:19:13 -0400, Mike Coslo
| wrote:
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| [Radial installing method snipped]
| |
| | Just thought I'd share this with the group. I never saw anyone else
| |saying they did anything similar, so I either stumbled on something, or
| |I'm completely whacked! ;^)
|
| I don't think that will work in my situation:
|
| http://www.qsl.net/n7ws/N7WS_Vert_1.jpg
|
| Eveything in the picture has thorns, spines, stickers or a rattlesnake
| coiled up under it.
|
| And yes, there are radials running under all of that stuff and I'm
| standing over radials where I took the picture.
|
|
| Quiz: How did I do it?
|
| I'm stumped. Beautiful location, though. I bet you don't have to worry
|about RFI'ing the neighbors! 8^)

Yes we love it here, but I'm a desert rat and grew up in the area. I
did have one case of RFI when I was running max smoke on 2-meters and
getting into everything in a neighbors house. I copied the FCC's TVI
handbook for dummies and stuffed it in his mailbox. Never heard
another word. I think he must have found a "diode" junction in his
electric fence because he didn't complain anymore and I didn't hear
his fence anymore.

The secret to installing ground radials through (under) cactus, Palos
Verde and ironwood trees without getting stuck is to use a "needle and
thread" method.

The needle in this case is a 20' length of 3/8" rebar and the thread
is the wire. A hose clamp attaches the wire to the rebar. The rebar
is limber enough to deflect around small obstacles (roots) yet stiff
enough to penetrate loose earth. Needless to say, the wire isn't
buried much, if at all, but there's not much foot traffic through
these areas.[g]

Wes