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Subject: Doping ground rods
From: ke5fi@wt.net (C. Logan Dietz (KE5FI))
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 16:12:45 -0800
Pete Soper wrote:
> 
> Dan Keefe, KS6Z sent N3UN and I some notes about migration of salts in
> soil that I hope he's sending to the reflector too.
> 
> I'll add two thoughts:
> 
> Don't forget about current and future plant roots. Even if salts only
> migrate down I wouldn't dare use them because of the large number of
> trees on my property and my lack of knowledge of where their roots are
> or where they'll be growing.
> 
> Think about the person that might buy your property and plant his tree
> or shrub in an arbitrary spot and at an arbitrary time in the future.
> 

You must be kidding!  You would worry about some "arbitrary" thing that 
might happen in the future keeping you from having a better ground 
connection?  Man, this is RADIO!

-)

Chuck, KE5FI



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