[R-390] Underground connection sealant/insulation

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With the chicken wire unravel part of it and bring this length of wire
above ground  to make your connections to the antenna.

As for grounding go to Polyphaser they wrote the book on it.
www.polyphaser.com/productdata.aspx?class=HAM

I have found plain old #6, or #8 steel rebar works great for grounding
rods, and you can find this stuff at a metal scrap yard for cheap.

                                                Ken de W7ITC


On 12/9/06, Sam Letzring <sletz at msn.com> wrote:
> I always use copper plated ground rods and then copper clamps to clamp the
> copper ground wire to the ground rod.
>
> Ground rods should be available at any electrical supply or maybe even Home
> depot or Lowes.
>
> Sam
>
> KE5IRZ
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Foley" <redmenaced at yahoo.com>
> To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 4:02 PM
> Subject: RE: [R-390] Underground connection sealant/insulation
>
>
> > You should be using solid copper wire Cadwelded to the
> > solid copper ground rods.  Anywhere there are
> > dissimilar metals touching in the ground they will
> > corode in no time!  Covering them MAY help, but won't
> > be a long term solution.
> >
> > Some electrical contractors will have the equipment to
> > do the welding and can give you more information and
> > suggestions on how to proceed.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> >
> >> Ken,  I wondered about the acid problem;  the online
> >> caveat seem to relate
> >> to applications where an item was sealed up before
> >> the acid could dissipate
> >> but evolved into a general statement not to use the
> >> acid type on any
> >> electronics, maybe not a justified conclusion as you
> >> state.  My ground is
> >> not being used for transmitting,  the antenna is to
> >> be an end-connected wire
> >> not too high off the roof.  The hog wire I bought is
> >> one level away from
> >> chicken wire,  14 gage.  I figured if I buried it
> >> where I probably would
> >> never be able to get to it,  I should have a little
> >> more wire thickness for
> >> connection using some small galvanized
> >> nut/bolt/angle iron connectors I
> >> found for electric fence applications in the local
> >> ranch and home store.
> >> How did you connect to the chicken wire?  Dan.
> >
> >
> >
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