Tom,
In my last e-mail, I failed to ask you why you needed to go out 17 feet to
your ground rod. As Lloyd said, the shorter the ground the better. Just a
foot or so outside the building is fine. The power company installs their
ground right up practically against the building.
Howard
W A 9 Y B W
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From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: mfj 931
> Howard, my concern was about having the ground wire actually in the ground
> for
> all that length. It would require my using an insulated wire and I had
> read
> somewhere that you can't do that for grounding. Is that not the case?
>
> There is grass all the way to the place I'd have to use but since they
> want the
> wire two or three inches deep and also want me to relandscape the area
> that I
> dig I guess I'm a little iffie about it <g>.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html