[TowerTalk] Ground Rods

[Barry Kutner]

Hi Tom - I think the copper coating on Radio Shack's ground rods 
is 1 atom thick! I used one on a Beverage I installed last fall. The 
thing is pretty must rusted out already. You problem is probably 
related to rust as well as 3 ft being too short for a good ground
73 Barry

On 9 Apr 99, Tom Osborne wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> km1h@juno.com wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 07:43:11 EDT Chanel1096@aol.com writes:
> > >
> > >Just a note on Ground Rods, keep in mind that one change >>implemented
> >into TIA/EIA-222-F was that all ground rods be >>galvanized steel.
> 
> > Reasoning??
> > Too fast a deteriation with copper clad maybe?
> > 
> > 73  Carl  KM1H
> 
> Some time back, I bought some ground rods from Radio Shack.  They
> were copper coated steel.  Are they useless?  I just can't seem
> to get the ground to work right here.  They are 3 feet long and I
> put 2 of them in the ground about 8 feet apart, and have them
> tied together with a heavy wire, soldered at each end.  I tie the
> radio and amp the the center of the wire.  It just don't seem to
> work right.  73
> Tom W7WHY
> 
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