[TowerTalk] Insulated wire, theory

[Tom Osborne Sr.]

Can't we just put up an antenna and see where it is resonant and adjust it
accordingly? 73
Tom W7WHY

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 7:49 AM Lux, Jim <jim at luxfamily.com> wrote:

> 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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