[TowerTalk] Insulated wire, theory

Edward McCann edwmccann at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 21 11:14:08 EDT 2022


Thanks Jim
In the hunt.

Ed McCann
AG6CX 

> On Sep 21, 2022, at 7:49 AM, Lux, Jim <jim at luxfamily.com> wrote:
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> On 9/21/22 6:58 AM, Lux, Jim wrote:
>> A discussion of how NEC4 does insulated wires (in short, by changing the wave number of the propagation in the conductor) can be found in the NEC4 Theory Manual.  Search for NEC4TheoryMan.pdf and there's several copies out there.
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>> I suspect that EZNEC does it by a similar approach - changing the length of the wire to a slightly shorter length to accommodate the slower propagation in the insulated wire. That may have been done semi-empirically 
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> More from the User Manual (which is marked export controlled, but if you have a copy, there's a short discussion of how it works)
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