[Boatanchors] new Ground system

Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:36:26 -0000

In local clay out here galvanised steel wire lasts no time at all.
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Barry Kirkwood PhD ZL1DD
Signal Hill Homestay
66 Cory Road
Palm Beach
Waiheke Island 1240
NEW ZEALAND
www.waiheke.co.nz/signal.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Zook <[email protected]>
To: Arthur Shulman <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] new Ground system


> In most soils, the aluminum will "disappear" in less
> than 6 months!  You can use galvanized electric fence
> wire that is sold by the 1/4 and 1/2 mile reels at
> home improvement centers.  The cost is normally under
> $10 for 1/4 mile.  I have had some of that in the
> ground for almost 30 years.  But, I know of several
> local amateurs who put in thousands of feet of
> aluminum wire for counterpoises for verticals that,
> when they just happened to pull on the end of the
> wire, about 6 inches came out.  The rest had basically
> disentegrated.
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
>
> --- Arthur Shulman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Have you considered getting a 1000' reel of aluminum
> #4 wire used for grounding TV masts? Real cheap, and
> just as effective as copper for this purpose.
>
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