[Elecraft] Electricity and worms [was: KAT500 tuning behavior when the load is impossibleto match ?]

[Alan. G4GNX]

FWIW back in the 80s, I had installed a new ground plate for the shack and 
wanted to ensure that it really was the best ground possible.
I used a trick that was used by the telecom people, where they connected the 
local exchange battery across two plates and blew off all the crud. 50 volts 
at many hundreds of amps did the business.
My way was to connect my ground plate to the incoming 240 volt supply main, 
via a MCB and each time the MCB tripped, I substituted  bigger one until I 
had no more larger values. ISTR I got to 40 amps and settled for that.
I had obviously made sure that no person or animal could get near the area 
whilst the power was on, but I was quite surprised to see how many 
earthworms had scuttled their way to the surface. <grin>

73,

Alan. G4GNX

-----Original Message----- 
From: Phil Hystad
Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2017 6:31 PM
To: Mike Rhodes
Cc: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KAT500 tuning behavior when the load is impossibleto 
match ?

Your story reminds me of a scene from that Godzilla movie with Matthew 
Broderick where he is “pumping” over sized worms from the ground using 
electricity.

73, phil, K7PEH