I don't know how much good this does, but I mix a concentrated saltwater
solution and pour it on the ground where I am going to place my ground rods.
I have even dug a hole where I was going to place my ground rods and then,
filled the hole with my concentrated saltwater solution, let it soak into
the ground and then, filled it up again with more saltwater solution. After
that, I pound my ground rod into the ground in the middle of the hole I dug.
This is probably way overkill, but then, I pour more saltwater solution into
the hole around the ground rod and fill the hole back up around the ground
rod with the dirt I dug up when making the hole. Yeah, this is a lot of
extra work and maybe totally unnecessary, but at least in theory, it should
give me a significantly better ground. 

Ron, K8HSY
   
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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Ed Malmgren
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:26 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Cleaning ground Rod

If you think it needs cleaning I would think by the time you drive it into
the ground it will be as clean as it needs to be and soon it will be
coroaded anyway.  73=
Ed   K7UC

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From: "Mark WZ0K" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 6:52 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Cleaning ground Rod

> Hi
>     I have a ground rod at the new house that is heavily corroded. I = 
> was able to clean up the copper wire. However, the corrosion on the 
> rod = is to deep to just scrape clean quickly. what do I do to get it 
> clean, = and then keep a good connection?=20
>     Thank you.
>
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