For the last 40 plus years now I have been using copper water pipe as part of my ground system.
Since my old pipe had eroded , coroded and otherwise deteriorated I decided to remove it and install a new one... BAD CHOICE. What I normally do is drill several smallish holes down the length at various points around the pipe. Then I drive it into the ground with a an adaptor that helps to prevent mushrooming (notice I didnt say that it prevented it). The whole idea of this pipe is that I drive it in the ground next to my ground rod (occasionally I have used IT as the ground rod when I have been in my cheap mode. I then use an adaptor to hook it to a hose and siphon. The purpose of the shiphon is that I mix a saturated solution of coper sulfate put it into a one gallon milk jug and with the siponn in the milk jug turn the hose on. The siphon can be purchased at garden stores for adding fertilizer etc. to a garden. This works really well and after I have done this for a few months the ground conductivity is greatly enhanded. Oh back to my original comment.. HOLY COW what price copper... so I stopped by the local Lowes to pick up a piece 1" copper pipe and the damn thing cost nearly $30. YIKES. Last time I bought a pipe.. it was something like $7.. but that has been 5 or 6 years ago. I didnt expect to have to take out a second mortgage to purchase a simple piece of pipe. Jim WA3MEJ _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
