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[TowerTalk] Wire size

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Wire size
From: w3svj@juno.com (N. S. FIRESTONE)
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 07:17:15 -0400
Is there any theoretical or, more importantly, practical difference in
the performance of a vertical antenna using "skinny" buried radials.
If I planned to use ten radials of #16 bare copper and then decided to go
with 4/0 bare copper instead of the #16, was the money difference well
spent?
Ignoring the chemical/mechanical survivability of the heavier wire would
the RF care? 

73 de Nate, W3SVJ, in Pittsburgh where it's not so smokey anymore.

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