[TowerTalk] ground plates (was DXE Patents)

[Wayne Kline]

I my be old school.. But I spray clear Krylon paint on exposed conections. YMMV  Wayne W3EA  My alunimum SQ vertial ground plates look almost like when ther were installed 22 years ago. 
 Why not just use copper (with brass machine screws, nuts and washers)?   Are there any drawbacks to that?
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> Copper is expensive and difficult to machine?
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> That said, you can get nice copper bus bars with holes predrilled and 
> set screws, fairly inexpensively (considering they're made of copper).
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> I use the aluminum ones, myself. If they work in circuit breaker panels 
> for decades, I figure they'll outlast the antenna or me.  Just keep it 
> dry-ish.
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