[TowerTalk] RADIAL WIRE

[Jim Lux]

----- Original Message -----
From: "MIKE GREENWAY" <K4PI at peoplepc.com>
To: <TOWERTALK at CONTESTING.COM>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:59 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] RADIAL WIRE


> Thanks for all the input.  One comment on the aluminum wire.  I put out
> aluminum that was 14 gauge and in a year or two it had started turning
> brittle and just crumbled up.  A lot of work laying all of that out was a
> waste of time.  73 Mike K4PI

That's kind of interesting... what kind of wire (i.e. what was the alloy, if
you know) and does your soil have any peculiar properties that might make it
corrode quickly?

There are some aluminum alloys that seem to fall apart instantly, and others
that don't.