RE: lake ground?

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Original poster: "Dave Halliday by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dh-at-synthstuff-dot-com>

Read the C.S. Notes to see what Tesla had to go through to get a good
ground in Colorado Springs...




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 > Subject: Re: lake ground?
 >
 >
 > Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz
 > <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 >
 > Tesla list wrote:
 >  >
 >  > 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
 >
 > 	Since the beginning of "wireless" commercial stations,
 > both radio and communication, have always attempted to use
 > salt water marshes for their antenna siting.  I suspect that
 > even "lake water" is conductive enough to help and that
 > anything on the bottom would have enough local mineral
 > contaminiation to help quite a bit.
 >
 > Ed
 >
 >
 >