We have had great results using hardware cloth, overlapped about 5cm or
more and spot soldered every 20cm or so with a heavy duty soldering iron.
Our oats site has shown no deterioration in the last 5 years of existence.
Very inexpensive. I don't know if the same material is available in Australia,
but the material we use solders very easily.
Regards,
Darrell Upson
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From: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Cc: Martin Garwood
Subject: OATS gndplane surface
List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org
Date: Tuesday, August 12, 1997 12:00AM
Hi Gang,
We are currently building another OATS and are looking into the most
cost & time effective way of achieving a uniform conductive groundplane
without using mesh. Does anyone have experience with using galvanised
metal sheet, and if so, the best method to join the sheets together
(silver solder, braze etc), bearing in mind temperatures >45deg C in
summer.
Alternatively has anyone had success with conductive coating or paint
over concrete ?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Best Regards.
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Martin Garwood, Manager, Austest Laboratories
4/87 Reserve Road Artarmon NSW 2064 AUSTRALIA
ph: 61-2-94374500 fax: 61-2-94374600
http://www.austest.com.au
