[TowerTalk] RE: Ground Rods - Steel or Copper Clad Steel?

[Jim Rhodes]

Thanks, now I know what to do with all those old Krugerands that have been
taking up space here in the shack!! It does pay to read all this stuff that
comes across the reflector!
:-)

At 02:56 PM 9/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>If you anneal 20 Krugerands each into a long spike shape and drive them into
>the ground surrounding your tower or guy anchors the gold will repel all
>galvanic action and preserve your ground system.
>Trust me!
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
>To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 2:41 PM
>Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RE: Ground Rods - Steel or Copper Clad Steel?
>
>
>>
>> At 03:21 PM 9/29/1999 EDT, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>> >
>> >In a message dated 29/09/99 14:20:04 EST, you write:
>> >
>> >> Thanks to all for the help in choosing the right type of ground rod.
>> >
>> >     What was it and why? Interested TowerTalkians want to know.
>> >
>>
>> Here's what I told him....
>>
>> Depends -- Some people claim that if you use a copper clad ground rod for
>> guy wire grounding near a galvanized anchor, you risk galvanic corrosion
>of
>> the zinc coating on the anchors, leading in turn to risk of anchor failure
>> through rusting of the steel.  For that reason, I use galvanized rods at
>my
>> guy anchors.  On the other hand, I use the copper clad rods for the base
>> grounding of my tower because I have no galvanized steel in the ground
>> there, but the ground wires for the tower are copper.  That way, in theory
>> I will have no corrosion at the joint between the rod and the ground wire.
>>
>> A way to avoid the dissimilar metals corrosion in the latter case, if you
>> can only get steel rods,  would be to use stainless steel intermediate
>> strips between the copper and the galvanized material.
>>
>>
>>
>> 73,  Pete N4ZR
>> Sometimes a tower is just a tower
>>
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Jim Rhodes KC0XU
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