[GreenKeys] Phone pole drop wire

[Peter Gottlieb]

It is posts like this which is why I will always stay on this list.

Peter


Geoff Fors wrote:
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> GreenKeys mailing list
> GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys
>
>