Re: frozen ground ground

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "kent by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
<toyhatsu-at-pcisys-dot-net>
 >
 > Matt,
 >
 > I can't remember who I got this from (maybe a Richard Quick post) and I
 > appologise to that person.  Use a 6-8 foot piece of 1/2 or 3/4 inch copper
 > water pipe and lead solder a standard copper faucet connection on the end.
 > Attach a garden hose to the connection  and the other end to a hot water tap
 > (for winter).  If I remember right it is very easy to push the copper pipe
 > in the ground as the water displaces the dirt on the way down.
 >
 > Hope this helps,
 > Kent

	That does indeed work fine, and I've used it here.  The problem comes
when you encounter a rock which won't dissolve in water!  We have lots
of those too, unfortunately.  I'll report my sad tale of ground rods for
my 160 meter tower.  I have four 8' rods driven into the ground with
great effort.  The resistance between them measures about 600 ohms
according to an ohmmeter, and when I hook a 100 w bulb between the hot
side of the AC line and one of these rods it glows visibly, but dimly.
Wasn't anywhere near as satisfactory as connecting to the water main.

Ed