Topband: Lawn staples

[Gene Smar]

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