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I have a paper showing measurements of soil conductivity made by the
accepted method of using a buried open wire line, which sounds similar to your method. The authors found that the conductivity varies considerably with frequency. Have your measurements shown this also? Roy Lewallen, W7EL Reg Edwards wrote: It is fairly easy to measure soil conductivity at DC and power frequencies. See program EARTHRES. Such measurement values apply up to a few hundred kHz. A few years back I became curious about what happens to conductivity at HF. And at what frequencies does soil permittivity begin to matter. Most amateur activity is at HF and above. Yet, without even thimking about it, we persist in plugging in power frequency values into formulae and computer programs. A volume of soil between a pair of electrodes behaves as a resistance in parallel with a capacitor. So this is what I did - . . . |
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