> From: "Mike Rhodes" <weightdn@bright.net>
> To: <topband@contesting.com>
> Subject: TopBand: Planting Radials ??
To: <topband@contesting.com>
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 18:38:35 -0400
> systems. As a related topic, I'm wondering what sort of 'ingenious
> contraptions' you may have used to put your radials into or on the ground.
>
> 73 de Mike / W8DN
> weightdn@bright.net
>
Hi Mike,
I used one of those gas powered edger things that is normally used to
run along the edge of a sidewalk to make little trenches in my yard.
Just went down far enough to make it thru the sod, but was deep
enough. I tromped the wire and dirt back into place and in a few
weeks one would never know I filled the backyard with buried wire.
While I am typing away here, I made a square of common 3/4 inch
copper water pipe and elbows to go around the base of my "tower".
This gound point device I made was drilled full of little holes and I
soldered all my ground wiires to it. I covered these solder points
with silicon bathtub sealer. Idea of that was so the solder would
not corrode up.
73 Jim K7SLI
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