[sdiy] Around the earth - an essay on grounding

[Magnus Danielson]

Hi folks!

During a discussion on the SAS-list 2001 I had a brief moment of inspiration
and wrote the posting below. Patrik Eriksson (aka Polarn-P) kindly asked
permission to use the text in his teaching for students of Umeå University.
Naturally I could not deny this request. He also put the text onto his webpage
as the first version outside the SAS list archive. Niklas Eriksson have also
used this text while making guest lecture at Västerås University.

Now I have not only put the original Swedish text up there... but also
translated it into English (well OK, tried to, but you can have a guessing
context of what I meant) so you can enjoy it too. It seems to have been usefull
to my fellow Swedes, so I thought some of you might have use for it too.

As always, this is a complex field and this is a crash-coarse leacture to aid
the thinking in the right direction and allow for the other pieces to fall down
nicely when they do. I hope at least.

http://rubidium.dyndns.org/~magnus/electronics/jordning.html

You should know that the title is a play on Jules Vernes "Around the world in
80 days" which in Swedish has a title matching the field, so there is a pun
there which you miss out on if you don't read Swedish (if so, you need to learn
and you know you really ought to).

The whole thing being an essay was really not intentional on my part, but
pointed out by Patrik Eriksson. I'm not much of a writer, so I don't think of
my random ramblings of being in this or that tradition or style.

Oh, if you have some comments on my spelling and all that. Please pass them of
to me >>>OFFLIST<<<.

Cheers,
Magnus - off to the bed