[TowerTalk] Insulated wire, theory

Jim W7RY jimw7ry at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 17:06:28 EDT 2022


Agreed Tom!

All this brain science stuff gets old when we're talking about and inch 
either way...

73, Jim W7RY


On 9/21/2022 2:26 PM, Tom Osborne Sr. wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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Thanks and 73, Jim W7RY


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