- 1. [TowerTalk] Staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: Red <RedHaines@centurytel.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:15:00 -0500
- I've also stapled radials into the lawn several times. At present, I have 66 radials, each 66 feet long extending from a vertical. They required over 400 staples to pin that many radials close to une
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00193.html (8,668 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TowerTalk] Staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: Lee Buller <k0wa@swbell.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:21:45 -0700 (PDT)
- Good idea. I have also used Bobby Pins that you find at Wal-Mart or Dollar General. I got a 100 for a buck. Lee - K0WA _______________________________________________ See: http://www.mscomputer.com f
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00194.html (7,242 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TowerTalk] Staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: "Tim, N9PUZ" <n9puz@arrl.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:28:42 -0500
- How would this work for the feed line? I have a Gap vertical I put up over the winter. Now that the ground is thawed I need to do something about the coax feed into the house. It's presently laying o
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00196.html (8,230 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TowerTalk] Staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:39:10 -0700
- How would this work for the feed line? I have a Gap vertical I put up over the winter. Now that the ground is thawed I need to do something about the coax feed into the house. It's presently laying o
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00197.html (8,892 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TowerTalk] Staples for Radials (score: 1)
- Author: ValErwin@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:54:01 EDT
- Towerites: I also use staples to secure groundplane wires under my vertical antennas. But there is an easier method than making your own staples................buy em'. That's right, they are called
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2004-04/msg00198.html (8,069 bytes)
- 6. [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Barnes <n4jbk@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:37:43 -0400
- does anyone know what the " yard staples" ( for lack of a better term) are called that some folks use to hold down radials? some folks have said that they are sold at home depot and such... _________
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00564.html (6,522 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Miller" <JimMiller@STL-OnLine.Net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:25:03 -0500
- Yes, Home Depot has them in the garden department. Don't know the price. 73, Jim _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00567.html (8,077 bytes)
- 8. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: "mryan001" <mryan001@tampabay.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:35:32 -0400
- If you have a surplus of steel coat hangers around, they are CHEAP and easy to use....just cut off the ends. They make good staples for keeping radials down. -Mike, K4CVL does anyone know what the "
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00568.html (8,097 bytes)
- 9. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:56:58 -0400
- I believe they are "ground cloth" staples. Not at all expensive. At least I hope not as we used them by the hundreds for landscaping around the yard. The ones we use are about an inch across a relat
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00570.html (8,883 bytes)
- 10. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: Lee Buller <k0wa@swbell.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:56:07 -0700 (PDT)
- I just did this for my 1/4 wave 40 meter verticle. I was even cheaper than cheap. I got some #12 galvanize wire from the local hardware store. I paid pennies for 15 to 20 feet of the stuff. Hardware
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00574.html (7,547 bytes)
- 11. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: "John Wagner" <jwagner@dxengineering.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:16:48 -0400
- DX Enginering carries them and calls them "lawn Staples" John W8JJW _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTalk@c
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00575.html (8,687 bytes)
- 12. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: Red <RedHaines@centurytel.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:50:35 -0500
- I bought wire at a farm store, cut it into pieces as Lee describes, and bent a short hook onto one end of each piece. To bend the ends quickly and easily, I clamped two nails in a vise about 3/16" ap
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00577.html (9,103 bytes)
- 13. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: "K3GM" <k3gm_qrp@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:44:02 -0400
- I made staples by hundreds (5000 feet of radials) recently. I purchased a few spools of baling wire from HD, cut 8 inch pieces, and after they were all cut, bent them around pencil one winter evening
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00628.html (8,342 bytes)
- 14. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Coleman <aa4lr@arrl.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:04:51 -0400
- Might there be a problem using steel staples over copper wire? Isn't there an opportunity for dissimilar metal corrosion? Sure, if the copper wire is insulated with a plastic insulator, it won't make
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00666.html (8,976 bytes)
- 15. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: K2EK@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:15:18 EDT
- Might there be a problem using steel staples over copper wire? Isn't there an opportunity for dissimilar metal corrosion? I was wondering the exact same thing... Wouldn't rusty baling wire staples (o
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00667.html (8,259 bytes)
- 16. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Miller" <JimMiller@STL-OnLine.Net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:48:07 -0500
- I did NOT use them for my ground wire installation. I used the "old fashion clothespins" that they think today are for making dolls and are in the hobby/cloth corner of someplace. I think it was Targ
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00668.html (10,139 bytes)
- 17. [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: <doktorij@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 8:09:52 -0400
- "Might there be a problem using steel staples over copper wire? Isn't there an opportunity for dissimilar metal corrosion?" You're more likely to get noise from poor connections at the base of the an
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-06/msg00692.html (8,727 bytes)
- 18. [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Surma" <Greg.Surma@wnem.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 15:56:55 -0500
- I do not like steel staples for holding down radials. My logic is that they eventually might end up getting tangled up in my lawn mower or stuck in someones foot. I use 3" long pieces of wood dowel w
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-07/msg00138.html (7,046 bytes)
- 19. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv@subich.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 01:40:58 -0400
- Another non-wire option is "Poly Stakes" from Home Depot. Internet # 161225 Catalog # 100081721 Store In-Stock SKU # 739882 They are 9" long poly stakes used for holding lawn edgings or pavers. Six i
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-07/msg00157.html (8,067 bytes)
- 20. Re: [TowerTalk] staples for radials (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:27:15 -0700
- ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Great idea, thanks! Bill, W6WRT _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list TowerTal
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2006-07/msg00163.html (7,665 bytes)
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