I retired a couple of years ago and no longer have to launder my white dress
shirts. Therefore, I no longer have a ready supply of wire shirt hangers
collecting in my closet. Therefore, I needed to buy some REAL lawn staples to
add more radials to my shunt-fed tower's ground screen.
FYI - here they are: HongWay 6 Inch Galvanized Landscape Staples 360 Packs
Garden Stakes. Amazon has them for $27 for a box of 360. I'm sure I could
have found them at a local farm supply store, etc. but they will be delivered
free of shipping costs to my front door tomorrow.
BTW - the answer to my question yesterday about laying radials and not
connecting them to my tower before impedance measurements was answered
unanimously (one of one responses) - the wire's presence in the dirt probably
won't make a difference. So I'll add as many radials as I can tolerate
installing and measure Z as I connect them, maybe 5 at a time, to the tower's
ground ring. I'll also measure Z before and after I lay down the additional
radials, but before I connect any. Stay tuned.
73 deGene Smar AD3F
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