[cctalk] Re: teletype roll as an RF termination load

It's been almost 40 years since I saw a roll of teletype paper, but I think they were rolled on cardboard? I can't imagine it would work very well in its native state, but maybe soaked in water or salt water it would be conductive enough and could dissipate a fair amount of power. I wouldn't think it would work much better than a light bulb, though. I know in the army they taught us to make a terminating resistor out of an ear plug case filled with salt water, but that wasn't intended to be very accurate or dissipate much power. Will Grownups never understand anything by themselves and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them, Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince