Hi Tom - I think the copper coating on Radio Shack's ground rods
is 1 atom thick! I used one on a Beverage I installed last fall. The
thing is pretty must rusted out already. You problem is probably
related to rust as well as 3 ft being too short for a good ground
73 Barry
On 9 Apr 99, Tom Osborne wrote:
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>
>
> km1h@juno.com wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 07:43:11 EDT Chanel1096@aol.com writes:
> > >
> > >Just a note on Ground Rods, keep in mind that one change >>implemented
> >into TIA/EIA-222-F was that all ground rods be >>galvanized steel.
>
> > Reasoning??
> > Too fast a deteriation with copper clad maybe?
> >
> > 73 Carl KM1H
>
> Some time back, I bought some ground rods from Radio Shack. They
> were copper coated steel. Are they useless? I just can't seem
> to get the ground to work right here. They are 3 feet long and I
> put 2 of them in the ground about 8 feet apart, and have them
> tied together with a heavy wire, soldered at each end. I tie the
> radio and amp the the center of the wire. It just don't seem to
> work right. 73
> Tom W7WHY
>
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