Richard wrote:
"I have access to a 65 ft. water well that I could install a radial in."

A radio wave traveling along the surface of the earth has its electric
lines of force tilted slightly forward so that the direction of
propagation is tilted slightly downward. The earth is a poor conductor
as compared with copper. The earth absorbs and dissipates some of the
wave`s energy.

Skin effect is the phenomenon of high-frequency current concentration on
a conductor`s surface. Skin effect applies to earth as it applies to
copper, butthe

Sorry I fat fingered the wrong button sending off an incomplete post.

I read the "Organic Reflective Elements for the Simple Dipole" in April
1973 "OST" It`s the issue with M. Walter Maxwell`s picture on page 35.
There is no connection between these stories in "QST".

The place for a story such as the reflecting water-filled trenchs would
have been in "Radio-Craft".

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI