[Antennas] Cleaning/Protecting Copper Wire Antenna

Tue Nov 16 07:15:00 EST 2004

To clean Antenna wire made out of copper: use a water diluted mixture of 1:1
Sulfuric/Nitric acid (abt 50% will do), leave the wire for about 5 (perhaps
10) minutes and then rinse thoroughly with fresh water.
The so treated copper wire WILL NOT dissolve itself WITHIN SECONDS!
To protect copper use horse urine: get surgeon gloves - then,with a quite wet
towel rub the clean copper carefully and you'll get the green shining (of the
resulting cover consisting mostly out of so called copper vitriol)which will
fully develop after a few weeks additional exposing the wire to the weather.
Perhaps you've already seen the result of such treatment already on older,
green roofs (eg on churches) which were - almost for sure - made out of copper
and protected as described above. I expect this protection to last many, many
years longer than anything else (even UV protecting poly urethane).
best 73's de HB9PCX, Wolf