[TowerTalk] Ground plane wire

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

My sarcasm was missed.


On 12/28/2016 1:59 PM, Guy Olinger wrote:
> For buried radials, particularly, I would not bother to scrape the 
> enamel off #16 enameled other than to connect and solder.
>
> Enamel is not the same thing as whatever PVC soup du Jour that is 
> being used on THHN for insulation because that's what they happen to 
> have in the barrel in China today.
>
> The question about insulation on radials, has to do with a murky 
> question about whether bare radials are better than insulated in a 
> dense and uniform buried radial system. That is not related to THHN 
> buried with insulation, other than the choice in this bare vs. 
> insulated question.
>
> Bare wire buried radial current measurements, from all the way back in 
> 1937 in the Brown, Lewis and Epstein study, have some interesting 
> aspects, which add to the murkiness in the question. To my mind it 
> isn't settled either way and not likely to be settled. Just bury it.
>
> 73, Guy K2AV
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:55 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com 
> <mailto:w0mu at w0mu.com>> wrote:
>
>     Naw just use a knife and scrape off that enamel.
>
>
>
>     On 12/28/2016 10:46 AM, lstoskopf at cox.net
>     <mailto:lstoskopf at cox.net> wrote:
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>         Gee guys,  I've a 60 pound roll of #16 ga enameled wire
>         sitting in the basement.  Got it from a motor rewinding
>         business that went broke.  Now I'm afraid to bury it because
>         it is safer in the basement.  N0UU
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