On 12/30/16 6:58 AM, Kim Elmore wrote:
I tried aluminum radials once, at my folk's house (my dad was a ham). He had an
18AVQ trapped vertical and I decided it would do better work radials. This was
maybe 40 y ago. Somewhere, I'd come across a big coil of Al wire, maybe 8 ga,
pretty cheap. I dutifully laid out as much as I could wherever I could fit it.
Lots of work. It seemed to help a bit but lasted only a few years because it
corroded to nothing!
this is the challenge with aluminum, buried in the ground - if the soil
chemistry is wrong, it disappears quickly.
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