Re: [TowerTalk] Using riding mower to run radials (2nd Try)

[Bill Coleman <aa4lr@arrl.net>]

On Apr 13, 2004, at 1:47 PM, Gene Smar wrote:
>      I make/made my staples out of wire shirt hangers.  Cut a piece 
> about 8
> inches long, bend it in half - vi-oh-la - staple!  Some of mine have 
> been in
> the ground since 1998, and I have buried about a half-mile of varying 
> gauge
> wire sizes in the front and side yards this way.

I've done this same sort of trick, but I used copper wire, not steel.

My thinking is the last thing I want is to have a redox reaction cut 
through my radial wire. Having steel in direct contact with copper is 
going to cause corrosion of the copper wire.

Put 12 radials down about a  year ago. I can't even FIND them under the 
grass any more....

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901

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