LOL :)
All radials are buried under the soil of the garden, through the basement to the front garden, sneaked radials outside my plot to neighbour plots with their permission, and when they broke up the dead end road in front of the house put in some copper there as well.
17 earth electrodes most 10 foot deep in the young silty sea clay here.
All antenna's except the small dish on the wall are mine, my dish is at the end of the garden ( motorised dish for sat TV).
The radial field isn't a nice circle, and not all radials are very long, but burying radials detunes them anyway so put in as much you can in any way or form you can, connect the ( stainless steel) kitchen sink, copper water pipes, house earth, and anything conductive to it.
I used the MFJ 269 analyser to see the resistance drop till the point of no return was reached ( 2100 feet copper wire).
Some wore was run on the fence , some woven in the fence, anywhere i could hide a wire there is one....
What is not so good visible is the OCF ( FD-4) with coil and wire from 160 -10 meters it runs from just under the 5 element 6 meter beam to the rows of housing in front and behind me, look up my call on the Zed and click satellite piccie of my situation.
I regularly climb the roof through the window in the roof, the tiles can be removed partly and for a kind of ladder then.
That's how i got it all on the roof in the first place ;)
I think it is a 2 master, no, 3.... eh, whatever.... ;)
The Vertical section has kevlar/aramide guy wires thin but very strong but not good visible on the piccie.
Total cost 300 euros all included.
Last piccie you can just see the back of the MFJ 998 1.5 kw autotuner feeding the L.
Still a mess to clean up at the feed point, but that can be done this week, getting the radials under the pavement.
Even in aa limited situation you can do some good things antenna wise, i admit that the number of antenna's might be a bit overdone if there is something like that....
But then i have a good relation with my neighbours ;)
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