Here is an old trick for grounding.  Insolated wire in the ground 
doesn't hurt anything just may not give you as good of a ground.  If you 
have a long run, say from your radio to your ground rod, use a piece of 
coax.  Use center conductor for ground wire, and on each end tie center 
through a .01 cap to the shield.  Works and keeks the ground wire from 
becoming a radiator.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Tom Brennan wrote:

> 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
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