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Old January 11th 10, 07:06 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Lostgallifreyan Lostgallifreyan is offline
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Default Dissimilar metals at antenna Mount

Richard Clark wrote in
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On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:16:37 -0600, Lostgallifreyan
wrote:

Would sacrificial action be appliable? Magnesium blocks are sometimes
used to prevent chemical action taking place on less reactive metals
electrically connected to them. I'm not sure if it can be applied
though, that trick is usually done with grounded (usually buried) blocks
to protect pipelines, etc.


Well, I doubt if this could be put to use for Tom. Some of the
sacraficial methods actually use a reverse bias to combat not only the
anodic reaction, but currents that occur naturally or flow between
service grounds.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


Yeah, I can't see a way to work it either. It would be a great method if it
did.