"Jimmie" Gfender@carolina dot.rr.dot com wrote in message
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I want to make a 2m Yagi out of stainless steel, partly because of the
corrosion resistance but mostly because I have the materials on hand. Some
of my friends have tried to tell me that the higher ohmic resistance of SS
will make for a poor antenna. Frankly I do see that it would make any

Look at all the mobile antennas. For the most part they are SS. Mainly
because of the stiffness of the material. The antennas for the low bands
are usually not SS. Part of it is that the short for wavelength antennas
can not stand much resistance where it becomes a large part of the overall
"radiation resistance".
When the antenna is aproaching a 1/4 wave or more the resistance of the
material it is made of is less important.