Hal,
Use insulated radials and avoid the corrosion. There is little advantage in
using bare radials, and the use of insulated radials will provide you with a
much longer service life. I dip the open ends in 'liquid tape' to fully
seal the radials.
73, Larry - W1GOR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hal Kennedy" <halken@comcast.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:45 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Using Clothes Hangers for coax and radial pins/staples
>I have often wondered about the electrical effects of steel sod staples.
> I pulled up a bunch of radials out at K4JA last December - they had been
> in the ground for two years and the sod staples came out of the ground
> nice and rusty, as you would expect. Every junction between the radials
> and the sod staples is a crummy, intermittent rectifier. Meanwhile,
> this never seems to hurt anything. Perhaps the currents are so small -
> due to the small size of the sod staples (?) that it doesn't matter?
> Still gives me the creeps to fill the yard with rectifier junctions.
>
>
>
> Hal
>
> N4GG
>
>
>
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