Reg Edwards wrote:
. . .
My only criticism of B.L & E is that they forgot to measure soil
resistivity before leaving the site. And apparently, nobody has ever
bothered to go back and do it for them.

What would you suggest as a method of measuring the RF ground
resistivity to a depth of 17 - 100 feet (3 skin depths at 3 MHz for the
range of likely resistivities)? Assuming it's very likely that the
resistivity would be quite different at different depths within that
range, how should they have used that information? How would you use
that information if someone "bothered to go back and do it for them"?

Reg, all signs point to your being seriously in need of a holiday. How
about a little trip to New Jersey to show us Yanks how it should have
been done? For less than the price of a couple of bottles of decent
wine, you can buy everything you'll need -- bucket, pocket DVM, trowel
-- right there, so you won't even have to carry any equipment with you.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL