[BC] Grounding by the sea

[Jeff Bottalico]

>>The best approach I've seen so far was at a station in Monterey, California, back in the '80's. The tower was in the bay at the end of a pier off Cannery Row, and the ground was salt water, with no radials at all. That station ran only a kilowatt, but you could hear it 40 miles away.

I don't know the station in Monterey but the KGU, KHNR, KHCM tower is interesting.  It has galvinized pipes going into the ground and the salt water table is only 1.8 meters below ground.  Here is the KHCM app.  Nice diagram about 17 pages in.

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101096640&qnum=5110&copynum=1&exhcnum=1

Jeff.