[TowerTalk] galvanized radial wires

Tue Feb 6 00:24:56 EST 2007

How do you keep the steel wire from curling up like a spring?

Rick N6RK

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> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 8:11 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] galvanized radial wires
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> > Is there anyone in the group who had experimented with >galvanized 16G
> > wire  for radials on 160M or on another band??
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> I used them here for a 40 meter dipole and they lasted quite a while, but
> they eventually started rusting and fading away into the ground.  Think I
> put them down about 15 years ago.  73
> Tom W7WHY
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