[TowerTalk] Using Clothes Hangers for coax and radial pins/staples

[W1GOR]

Hal,

Use insulated radials and avoid the corrosion.  There is little advantage in 
using bare radials, and the use of insulated radials will provide you with a 
much longer service life.  I dip the open ends in 'liquid tape' to fully 
seal the radials.

73, Larry - W1GOR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hal Kennedy" <halken at comcast.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:45 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Using Clothes Hangers for coax and radial pins/staples


>I have often wondered about the electrical effects of steel sod staples.
> I pulled up a bunch of radials out at K4JA last December - they had been
> in the ground for two years and the sod staples came out of the ground
> nice and rusty, as you would expect.  Every junction between the radials
> and the sod staples is a crummy, intermittent rectifier.  Meanwhile,
> this never seems to hurt anything.  Perhaps the currents are so small -
> due to the small size of the sod staples (?) that it doesn't matter?
> Still gives me the creeps to fill the yard with rectifier junctions.
>
>
>
> Hal
>
> N4GG
>
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