[TowerTalk] Ground Rods

Mark Robinson markrob at mindspring.com
Tue Nov 30 10:10:02 PST 2010


I put in 10 foot copper clad 5/8 ground rods around my tower. Most of them 
went in pretty easily..

Mark N1UK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Bookwalter" <n8dcj at yahoo.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 30 November, 2010 12:43 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Ground Rods


> Ok , i have seen several discussions regarding what people are using for 
> ground
> rods.... some use actual 5/8" ground rods , while others use 1/2" copper 
> pipe ,
> thoughts on which is better ?
>
> also i was thinking about using 4ft ground rods instead of 8 footers , but 
> use
> twice as many of them , it is much easier to drive the 4 footers  , 
> thoughts ?
>
> thanks
>
> Dan N8DCJ
>
>
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