Lets get a bit more elementary - are you sure that wire has DC continuity
end to end when its up and tensioned ???
I once bought a roll of wire from HD that had a gap of about an inch in it
Maybe your wire is not all connected -that would move the ant up in freq
from where you expect.
If you still had a good old rugged tube amp you could match it it and feed
a KW or so into and see if a gap catches on fire-or end melts and falls off .
(Lets the smoke out of the wire )
Hank K7HP
----- On Mar 25, 2021, at 1:56 PM, N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net> wrote:
Jim, ignorant question - at X=0, isn't the resistive component also the
impedance?
73, Pete N4ZR
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