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

[Tom Rauch]

I wouldn't worry about it unless you had a small radial
system. With enough radials the radial- to -earth voltage is
about nil.

73, Tom W8JI
----- 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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