[TowerTalk] Ground Rods

[Paul McInnish - K4BET]

The steel rebar in the copper tubing would cause
electrolytic corrosion and destroy the copper in short
order...

Paul - K4BET

Jim Berry wrote:
> 
> Here is something I would like try.  Using common 1/2 copper plumbiing pipe
> for a ground rod.  There is no way I could pound that soft stuff into the
> concrete hard soil around here though, but maybe a piece of steel rebar
> would fit inside the copper pipe.  Then one just might be able to pound it
> into about anything.  Interesting one that I am going to mess with when it
> stops raining around here.  The cost would be a fraction of a copper plated
> ground rod and who cares then if the rebar rots away over the years.  If you
> could get the copper pipe into the ground that would be more then any plated
> rod could ever hope for when it comes to copper thickness.
> There is a trick using a garden hose over a soft copper pipe and simply
> oozing it into the ground, but I highly doubt if anyone has a water outlet
> handy at the end of their Beverage.
> 
> 73 Jim K7SLI
> 
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