[TowerTalk] Hazards of Low soil conductivity

[lstoskopf at cox.net]

I'll check next Sunday with the missionary guy.  He's the moderator or our church and has been there many times.

Soil conductivity is related to amount of sand, silt, and clay as well a bit of minerals on the associated cations.  That's why soil scientist measure it.  Some also measure magnetic properties...if the soil has those properties.

One wire lines:  Our first phone line was one wire and usually owned by the farmer it served.  We had lots of the big 1.5 (I think) batteries with terminals around (dead) from the mic bias.  You still can find about 6" X maybe 1" carbon rods around left over when the zinc outer layer went away.  People just threw them out.

As for the milking machines.  A very good friend, an atty, had a lot of milking machine cases where farmers swore that electrical leaks caused the cows no to let the milk down.  One witness swore that his hand were sensitive and he could feel the electricity.  Since my buddy was on the machine side, he had to be biased.  But he had lots of travel to ZL and VK trying them.

Back to radio,

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