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- W3INK Super Ground Rod
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- I was looking for an easier way to ground my tower than to drive
- another 8 foot ground rod into the rockey ground. I remembered
- seeing my father-in-law drive a water well 90 feet down by using
- water pressure. He simply connected his garden hose to a pipe
- and stuck the pipe into the ground. The water flowing from the
- open end cleared the dirt out of the way and the pipe went in. I
- decided to try it with a 10 foot piece of 1/2 inch copper water
- pipe I had around. As it turned out the pipe just fit into the
- end of the garden hose. A small radiator hose clamp held it in
- place adequately. The water was turned on and the open end of
- the pipe was stuck into the ground. It penetrated easily until
- it aparently struck a rock at about 9 feet. Since that was
- deeper than the standard 8 foot ground rod would go, I left it.
- A piece of 1/4 inch copper tubing was clamped to the bottom of
- the tower and to the exposed end of the copper pipe ground.
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- H. Stanley Staten, W3INKof
- the tower and to the exposed end of the copper pipe gro