[TowerTalk] DX Engineering radial plate question

[Thomas Giella KN4LF]

One time for a 160 meter tee vertical I made a grounding plate out of soft 
copper water tubing that would be used for an ice make in a refrigerator. I 
shaped it into a ring and soldered 64 radials to it. The soldering job was a 
real pain and eventually the soldered connections started to degrade. I 
built a second one and sprayed the soldered connections with clear spray 
paint but eventually the spray paint fell apart due to UV from the Sun and 
the connections once again.

So I bought one of the DX Engineering stainless steel grounding plates. It 
was a pain to solder lugs on each of the radials for attachment to the 
plate. I put some heat shrink tubing on each of the lugs to protect the 
soldered joint from degradation and all has been fine for a couple of years.

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Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
Lakeland, FL, USA
kn4lf at earthlink.net

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