Topband: salt the ground?

[k6se@juno.com (k6se@juno.com)]

>From my experience operating in the 160m contests from a salt lake bed
with a balloon-supported vertical, I can verify that a moist, pure salt
ground works outstandingly well.  However, the salty ground there extends
for several miles and the few hundred pounds of salt you have will
probably be spread quite thin, only in the near field.  I doubt that it
will make much difference other than killing the fauna.

73, de Earl, K6SE