[TowerTalk] RF resistance of copper oxides

["dfaklis@frontiernet.net" <dfaklis@frontiernet.net>]

 Here's some additional reading on this topic.  We typically decide to neglect 
the effect, but it is non-zero.

http://g3ynh.info/zdocs/comps/part_1.html

http://rudys.typepad.com/ant/files/antenna_wire_conductor.pdf


http://k6mhe.com/n7ws/Plating.pdf

73, Dean, NW2K

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...that the tarnish would be more like insulation and the current would simply 
flow through the copper below (low resistance path) ...

...Dull and tarnished has zero effect...The rf current simply travels beneath 
the tarnish.
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