[TowerTalk] RF resistance of copper oxides

[dfaklis at 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.