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From: "John Rabson" <word.factory@zetnet.co.uk>
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Subject: LF: Re: Earth contact resistance
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 07:56:54 +0100
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----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Melia <Alan.Melia@btinternet.com>
To: rsgb_lf_group <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 10:12 PM
Subject: LF: Earth contact resistance


> Hi all, I have noted again from Peter's description of the Tesla
experiments
> at the Museum, and from John's Earth Wireless web site, that the addition
of
> several pounds (or kgms) of common salt (and water) seems to be a usual
way
> of improving the contact resistance beween earth rods and the surrounding
> ground. It occurs to me that those with an enviromental approach or just
> those who are keen gardeners (I note the reluctant pruning near the
> aerials!) might not wish to blight their garden with large quantities of
> sodium chloride.
What about a old GPO faultsman's solution (applied discreetly)?

73 de
John Rabson G3PAI