[TowerTalk] Cleaning Aluminum Eelements

Logan Dietz dietz@texas.net
Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:51:49 -0600





>
> >  >
> >        Why would you need to do that? RF observes the skin effect and only
> >  travels on the outside of the conductor.
> I always thought skin effect meant it flowed on the SURFACE of a conductor.
> How does the rf know if it's on the outside surface and not on the inside
> surface????

The inside is the return path for the element.

Chuck, KZ5MM


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