Topband: Restistance of wire

[Tom W8JI]

> I would not worry too much about 40 ohms resistance in a 600 ohm impedance
> antenna that already has an intentional terminating resistance at the end.
> Although I've never modeled what happens when the resistance is somewhat
> distributed instead of lumped at the end, probably some loss in 
> directivity.


What about if it was operating a 100-ohm transmission line mode?  :)