On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:30:12 -0400, "Hal Rosser"
wrote:

it would be interesting to see what difference it would make if you just
burried the same dollars-worth of 12ga wire about 2 or 3 inches and omit
most of the ground rods..

Hi Hal,

That has been discussed here at depth (no pun, well maybe) and it
works nearly as well (barring the current density vaporizing it during
a lightning strike).

Depth does not bring any great boon to lowering resistance that cannot
be served with a lateral bar of the same length. As usual, simple
answers have their problems, but this simple answer serves many
trivial concerns (RF ground being one).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC