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Re: [TowerTalk] Insulated wire, theory

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Insulated wire, theory
From: "Tom Osborne Sr." <w7why1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:26:23 -0700
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Can't we just put up an antenna and see where it is resonant and adjust it
accordingly? 73
Tom W7WHY

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 7:49 AM Lux, Jim <jim@luxfamily.com> wrote:

> On 9/21/22 6:58 AM, Lux, Jim wrote:
> > A discussion of how NEC4 does insulated wires (in short, by changing
> > the wave number of the propagation in the conductor) can be found in
> > the NEC4 Theory Manual.  Search for NEC4TheoryMan.pdf and there's
> > several copies out there.
> >
> >
> > I suspect that EZNEC does it by a similar approach - changing the
> > length of the wire to a slightly shorter length to accommodate the
> > slower propagation in the insulated wire. That may have been done
> > semi-empirically
>
>
>
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