[Towertalk] tower joint Conductivity ???

[Pete Smith]

At 11:40 AM 11/20/02 -0800, Steve Katz wrote:
>        On a related subject (sort of), zinc is not a great conductor.  That
>someone measured the resistance of his tower at "zero" (presumably small qty
>of milliohms) seems unreasonable to me, although maybe not out of the
>question -- there's a lot of plating there, and with three legs in parallel
>and all the webbing, maybe there's more surface area than I would have
>guessed.


I carefully specified that the resistance was presumably less than .05 
ohms, since my DVM read 0.0, rather than 0.1.


73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower