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[Towertalk] silver solder ok for Ground wire to rod ?

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Subject: [Towertalk] silver solder ok for Ground wire to rod ?
From: swca@swbell.net (Mark Beckwith)
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 16:24:29 -0500
Uhh, maybe, if its a crappy connection, the lightning might find another
path it likes better?  Tom, am I learning?

Mark, N5OT

> I don't understand all the fuss about ground wire connections having to be
> cadwelded
> etc. That lightning strike has just traveled hundreds or thousands of feet
> through the air to get to that connection. It is not going to be stopped
by a
> few thousands of an inch or a little corrision in the connection.



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