[TowerTalk] Ground Rod Myths?

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

On 4/23/2014 1:49 PM, Jon Pearl - W4ABC wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> I used this method a few years back and found that it worked very 
> quickly.
>

They call that a female thread adapter, but the hose barb is a male.  
One of our new school graduates must have written the description as in 
the past it simply would have been called a male hose adapter.

73

Roger (K8RI)

> If you use an appropriately sized female garden hose repair coupler, 
> such as 
> http://www.homedepot.com/p/Ray-Padula-Metal-5-8-in-Garden-Hose-Female-Thread-Repair-with-Stainless-Steel-Clamps-RP-RIFR-6/205167514 
> and pound it into a piece of appropriately sized EMT, you'll have the 
> all that you need.  I (lightly) held the EMT in a vice and inserted 
> the nipple end of the coupler into the EMT.  I inserted a ratchet 
> socket into the female hose end of the coupler and used a hammer to 
> tap the back of the socket so as to drive the nipple end into the EMT.
>
> To install the ground rod, you simply turn on the water supply and 
> start driving the 10' stick of EMT into the soil till you reach the 
> desired depth.  Turn off the water supply, remove the EMT and drop 
> your ground rod.  Once I had the rods at the desired depth, I once 
> again used water to back fill some of the soil that was pushed up out 
> of the hole by the water.  Since I'm in central Florida & the soil is 
> pretty sandy, I found that refilling the hole around the ground rod 
> works pretty well as there's a lot of resistance by the ground rod to 
> being pulled back out by hand after back filling.
>
> I just took a picture of a 1/2" ground rod sitting along side a 10' 
> piece of 1/2" EMT with the female repair coupler attached and I placed 
> it on my web site at http://www.w4abc.com/hydrogroundrod.html
>
>
>
> 73,
>
>
> Jon Pearl - W4ABC
> www.w4abc.com
>
>
> On 4/23/2014 9:22 AM, Gary Smith wrote:
>> I used to live in NE Illinois and in southern Louisiana and that's
>> exactly how I did my long grounding rods. No stones at all to run
>> into. Here in Connecticut it took a lot of effort to find exact
>> placement for my HI-Z Rx array, the soil is one big rock with a thin
>> surface layer dirt on top. Get a few inches down & hit solid.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Gary
>> KA1J
>>
>>
>
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