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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:49:01 -0700
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As I mentioned in another post, for long runs, use coax with center as 
the ground wire and bypass each end to shield with .01 cap.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Tue, 16 Apr 
2013, Curtis Delzer wrote:

> I have a similar problem, where my 8 foot ground rod is sunk close to
> the antenna, the ground of the antenna is connected to it, but my
> radio is in the house kind of around the corner so should I run a
> number 12 wire to the ground rod from my rig or not?
>
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> At 08:27 AM 04/16/13, you wrote:
>> Thanks.  I'll have to play with this.  My concern about removing insulation is
>> that the wire will begin only a couple feet from the ground rod for my antenna
>> and I would think they would essentially cancel each other out.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
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