chuck wrote in news:3XfSf.4771$sL2.2554
@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:

Here's an even simpler experiment. Take a couple of one foot lengths of
copper pipe attach a 20 foot wire to each and connect the wires to an AC
voltmeter. Drop the pipes into the water with say 20 to 40 feet of
separation. If your boat is in a marina, there is a chance you'll detect
an electric field in the water with this setup. If you find one around


WHOA! Last time I created this kind of electric field, we used an old
telephone generator in the lake I grew up on! We got busted by the game
warden just as we were filling the minnow buckets with fish the field had
stunned....(c;

(Works great, by the way...(c