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Re: [TowerTalk] Coper clad steel

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coper clad steel
From: Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:12:18 -0700
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:20:19 -0600, "Mark Richardson"
<w7hpw@airwired.net> wrote:

>Anybody use copper clad steel for buried ground planes on vertical antennas,
>Recommendations?

------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------

Radials corrode, especially when buried. I would use insulated copper,
probably magnet wire. Since the power is divided among many radials,
they do not have to be large diameter. 

Bill W6WRT
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