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Re: lake ground?
Original poster: "Jerry Chamkis by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jchamkis-at-bga-dot-com>
Sounds a little scary, but when I was a kid in Los Angeles (~100 years ago :-)
there was an AM radio station on Catalina Island that had wire mesh in the
(salt) water for their ground. They had a -famously- strong signal. Might
be irrelevant though- sea water is presumably orders of magnitude more
conductive than fresh...
Jerry
On Friday 06 June 2003 05:32 pm, Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: "Adam Britt by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <beans45601-at-sbcglobal-dot-net>
>
> I will be taking my tesla coil up to a scout camp for 7 weeks, and i am
> wondering what i should do about a ground. I haven't been able to go up
> there yet to see what the ground is like around the campfire circle. But, i
> am going to assume thats its very rocky (like most of the ground in
> arkansas). Could i buy some of that metal fence/mesh stuff, strap the
> bottom of my secondary to that, and throw it out in the lake? How good of a
> groun would this be?
> Thanks
> Adam
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Jerry Chamkis
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