Hi Carolyn,

Thank you for the encouraging words about the ground rods. Unfortunately, I
believe all the water pipes around here are PVC. It is good to know that 4
foot rods might work.

God bless,
Mark (WZ0K)

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From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of carolyn johnson
Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 11:25 AM
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Subject: Re: Question about Ground Rods

Hi,

I have two four foot ones that I used to use, and that seemed to do fine. If

worse comes to worse, you could always run wire to a water pipe.

Carolyn Kj4vt


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From: "Mark" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 10:43 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Question about Ground Rods

> Hi
>
> I know that the ultimate in grounding would be to sink an 8 foot ground 
> rod.
> However, the budget is dictating that should wait for a while. So, I am 
> left
> with two options. First, I could just ignore grounding the antennas and
> radio. They are after all working pretty well right now. Or, I could go 
> with
> a 3/8 inch 3 foot ground rod that fits the budget. Actually, I would buy 2
> of them. So, the question is: is it even worth putting down a ground rod
> that is less than 8 feet?
>
> God bless,
> Mark (WZ0K)