I hooked up a hose to the end of 3/4" Cu tubing and easily pushed it down in
the sand when I lived in southern New Jersey. Did this with 3 pieces around
the tower. I question how much of a ground I really had. Ran out some
radials from the ground rods to try to help it a bit.
Tony
N2TK
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From: owner-amps@contesting.com [mailto:owner-amps@contesting.com]On Behalf
Of K4ZDZ@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 7:34 PM
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: [AMPS] Ground rods?
I live on sandy soil into which I can easily "water jet" scrapped copper
plumbing pipe. It would seem that using such a grounding method would be
superior to copper plated electrical ground rods since I don't need to go
down very far to hit water. As I understand it, the larger the surface area
on a ground, the better! Anybody using this relatively cheap material for
grounding?
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