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1. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k2hk@arrl.net (Howard Klein); Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:19:12 +0000; I have a few hundred lbs of salt used for melting roadway ice. Is there any advantage to dispersing this in the area of my 160 meter shunted tower to improve ground conductivity? Howard Howard M. Kle; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00088.html (7,676 bytes)
2. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:32:29 -0400; When the Roman legions attacked an area, they killed, looted, etc. If they were especially angry with the folks they had just overrun, they sometimes salted the ground. Made it unable to support plan; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00090.html (8,927 bytes)
3. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: ford@cmgate.com (Ford Peterson); Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:46:03 -0500; I think it oughta work real well if the goal is to kill the grass, but a topical treatment of a few hundred lbs over a 200' diameter circle (~ 3/4 acre) would amount to nothing noticable in terms of; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00091.html (9,279 bytes)
4. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: K4MK@triad.rr.com (Kent Miller); Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:08:55 -0400; According to the ARRL Antenna Book, 6 th edition, published 1954 -- " the circular trench ( surrounding the ground rod ) is filled with rock salt, magnesium sulfate, or copper sulfate, put in dry and; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00093.html (8,973 bytes)
5. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k6se@juno.com (k6se@juno.com); Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:49:36 -0700; 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; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00094.html (8,373 bytes)
6. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: n5tw@igg-tx.net (Tom Whiteside); Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:06:24 -0500; I can tell you that I've often wondered if all the sweat from burying 5 miles of radial wire in the Texas sun didn't have as much effect as the copper! <grin> Tom N5TW; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00095.html (7,760 bytes)
7. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: wa4tt@nlamerica.com (John Vickers); Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:07:31 -0400; As a 9 yr old SWL in 1959, I watered my salted ground rod every afternoon when I arived home from school. Sure helped the old Philco receive the Chicago PD down near 160 mtrs, way down here in Dixie.; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00096.html (8,801 bytes)
8. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: sebdesn@ecentral.com (sebdesn); Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 21:35:47 -0600; My only comment is that you had better hope the EPA is not a subscriber to this list. I'm sure these guys would run over each other to see your salt lick. Just before they ripped you a "new one". Bud; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00098.html (8,012 bytes)
9. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: richard@karlquist.com (Richard Karlquist); Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:09:19 -0700; Coincidentally, I was searching on this topic today, except I was interested in using salt to prevent weeds from growing around my verticals. I found a fairly long discussion on garden web: http://fo; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00100.html (9,911 bytes)
10. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: richard@karlquist.com (Richard Karlquist); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:23:56 +0100; Coincidentally, I was searching on this topic today, except I was interested in using salt to prevent weeds from growing around my verticals. I found a fairly long discussion on garden web: http://fo; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00102.html (8,773 bytes)
11. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: 2@mail.vcnet.com (Richard); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:19:59 -0700; / Howard -- Water has a dielectric constant of c. 79 whether it is salted or pure, so for RF purposes, a freshwater marsh conducts as well as a saltwater marsh. cheers - R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich.; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00103.html (8,598 bytes)
12. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: K7LU@arrl.net (Scott E. Parker); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 14:41:40 +0000; Huh??? Last time I checked, pure water was a pretty good insulator and saltwater a pretty good conductor. -- K7LU Scott E. Parker K7LU@arrl.net _______________________________________________________; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00104.html (8,500 bytes)
13. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k2hk@arrl.net (Howard Klein); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:18:08 +0000; Received a surprising number of replies, some privately. They ranged from the sarcastic to the helpful and one or two have actually tried this with anecdotally reported success. I neglected to say th; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00105.html (8,692 bytes)
14. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k9uwa@arrl.net (John K9UWA); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:38:30 -0500; Question then as to why in AO-6 program that a vertical exibits lower take off angle as well as greater gain using 81,5000 Salt Water vs 80,1 for fresh water?.....It is a Nec2 based program I believe; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00106.html (9,225 bytes)
15. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: 2@vc.net (2); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:43:59 -0700; / Howard -- Water has a dielectric constant of c. 79 whether it is salted or pure, so for RF purposes, a freshwater marsh conducts as well as a saltwater marsh. cheers - R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich.; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00107.html (7,841 bytes)
16. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:43:59 -0400; Since the topic has migrated from "will salting the ground improve my low band antenna" to something along the lines of "defoliating a victory garden", let me up my ante to 4 cents by pointing out th; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00109.html (8,865 bytes)
17. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: jreisert@jlc.net (Joe Reisert); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:23:44 +0100; Hi Rick, We in New England know all about SALT, especially the kind they use to melt the ice on the roads in the winter time. It works wonders melting the ice, often eventually causes rusting on our; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00110.html (7,859 bytes)
18. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:49:19 -0400; There are countless well-documented examples in history where the majority was clearly shown later to have been totally wrong. Just for one example, there was Galileo with his absurd notion that the; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00112.html (9,529 bytes)
19. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k9uwa@arrl.net (John K9UWA); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:21:57 -0500; "salting" the ground will make your radials disappear quickly.... Spend the money and effort in improving the Radial System.....More and Longer is better..... John k9uwa John Goller, K9UWA & Jean Go; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00113.html (8,513 bytes)
20. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: keith@jillings.org.uk (Keith Jillings); Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:08:06 +0100; Having recently visited a local agricultural research institute with some Tanzanian visitors whose crops were failing more and more often, I can attest to that! They were using Lake Victoria as their; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00116.html (8,795 bytes)

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