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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contest QTH
From: "James Cain" <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 16:36:20 -0400
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I am four miles west of the edge of Great Bay, an Atlantic Ocean inlet. Can I 
run a ground wire there to get the salt water effect, or do I need to go 
another three miles, across the bay to the actual ocean? Calling all technical 
gurus!

I like 3/4-inch tinned copper braid, myself. If it would hold up in salt water, 
which I doubt, The Wireman has bargain prices on it for thousand-foot 
quantites. 90 cents a foot. So a four-mile run to the bay would run me only 
$19,000. The seven-mile run to the open ocean would set me back $33,264. Both 
seem a little steep but cheaper than buying land on the beach. 

Jim Cain
At The K1TN Superstation
Pomona, New Jersey

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