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[TowerTalk] RE: Ground Rods - Steel or Copper Clad Steel?

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Subject: [TowerTalk] RE: Ground Rods - Steel or Copper Clad Steel?
From: w9ol@dataflo.net (Bill Heinzinger)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:56:55 -0500
If you anneal 20 Krugerands each into a long spike shape and drive them into
the ground surrounding your tower or guy anchors the gold will repel all
galvanic action and preserve your ground system.
Trust me!


----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RE: Ground Rods - Steel or Copper Clad Steel?


>
> At 03:21 PM 9/29/1999 EDT, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >In a message dated 29/09/99 14:20:04 EST, you write:
> >
> >> Thanks to all for the help in choosing the right type of ground rod.
> >
> >     What was it and why? Interested TowerTalkians want to know.
> >
>
> Here's what I told him....
>
> Depends -- Some people claim that if you use a copper clad ground rod for
> guy wire grounding near a galvanized anchor, you risk galvanic corrosion
of
> the zinc coating on the anchors, leading in turn to risk of anchor failure
> through rusting of the steel.  For that reason, I use galvanized rods at
my
> guy anchors.  On the other hand, I use the copper clad rods for the base
> grounding of my tower because I have no galvanized steel in the ground
> there, but the ground wires for the tower are copper.  That way, in theory
> I will have no corrosion at the joint between the rod and the ground wire.
>
> A way to avoid the dissimilar metals corrosion in the latter case, if you
> can only get steel rods,  would be to use stainless steel intermediate
> strips between the copper and the galvanized material.
>
>
>
> 73,  Pete N4ZR
> Sometimes a tower is just a tower
>
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