[GreenKeys] Phone pole drop wire

[Geoff Fors]

Larry, you mean the drop wire from the phone pole to the house actually is
supposed to have copper wire in it?  The ones at my house are twin little
rubber hoses full of green powder, and date from the Eisenhower era.  They
won't change them unless forced to.

I had the deluxe Comcast cable ground wire, attached to the PVC water line
also.

Went to help a younger ham in town a few years ago who was having trouble
with a BC-610 transmitter he had gotten somewhere.   His antenna was a 65
foot hank of bell wire thrown out an aluminum framed window to a tree.  The
"antenna" had arced over to the window frame and blown about a 1 inch chunk
out of it.  He did not have the antenna tuner either.  I saw a piece of # 18
bell wire heading out the door of his bedroom and out the back door, on the
floor.  Following it, it went to a 24 inch copper rod pounded into a large
flower pot (!) on the back porch, and the other end was screwed to the
BC-610 chassis...

Geoff
WB6NVH