[BC] Grounding by the sea

[Tom Spencer]

How about putting the plate on pontoons so that the plate-to-water 
spacing is a constant.  Connection between the rest of the ATU and the 
plate via flexible cable just long enough to reach at lowest tide.  
Fiberglass pontoons, of course.  That would solve the variable C of the 
(probably shunt) leg of the ATU, as well...

Richard Fry wrote:
>> Could the tower/signal ground be capacitively coupled to the variable 
>> height water level found in tidewater stations?
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> If one plate of such a capacitor is installed at a fixed location above 
> high-tide sea level w.r.t. the tower base, then its capacitance to an 
> adjacent plate consisting of sea water will vary as sea level ebbs and flows 
> with the tide.  

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Tom Spencer