I also wonder about 'good grounds' for dipoles.
If your terrain was very sandy - so much so that it would take over a
hundred ft of
ground rod to make a difference - then would this mean that your antenna
would
perform as though it was 100 ft higher - than over "normal" ground. ???

I've seen industrial plants use "ungrounded 480volt delta" system, and
with this system, if
any of the 480 v legs come into contact with "ground" (say a wet piece of
concrete floor)
there would be no sparks - as that corner would become the grounded leg.



"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
...
Here is the scenario:

Hamshack on the west side of the house.

OCF dipole between two trees running perpendicular over the house with
the Balun directly above the shack (now *that* is handy)

Butternut vertical on the east side of the house. 12 radials so far.

Now here is what brings about the question. Over the winter months, I
had to have my sewer line to the street replaced, which ended up making
a huge mess out of my front yard. This means that I will probably end up
tilling and replanting a large part of the yard.

Is there any point to laying radials in the front yard? They would be
quite a ways (~50 feet) from the radials around the Butternut.

The main reason I ask though, is that I thought I heard here some time
ago, that a dipole would perform better over a good ground system.

- Mike KB3EIA -