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Default stainless steel foil instead of copper for grounding Ham radio?

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:39:43 +0000, Larry wrote:


I wish you guys would worry much more about "series inductance"
and lots less about how expensive you can make the damned ground
strap.

....
Larry W4CSC and other fine old calls since 1957



A valid point. But then, running an insulated wire underwater
has rather appreciable series inductance too
(which can self-tune at some frequency -
I wonder what fx that is? :-)

Brian W