"Yuri Blanarovich" wrote in message
...
.Is
it going to make any real
difference on HF? Nope...

Exactly.

Jerry


YES, it makes real difference in calculating the proper length. If you are
making, let's say quad for 10m and used EZNEC to calculate the dimensions
using
bare wire and then used insulated, you would end up exactly in the middle
of CB
band. Nope? Exactly! What?

Is that "any real difference on HF"? Yep, to me is. Using #12 insulated
house
copper wire makes exactly 5% difference.

If you do not care where the antenna resonates, than NOPE.
If you care to maintaing performance, pattern, impedance, SWR, than YEP!

If you are making long wire antenna or Beverage, than length and
shortening
factor does not matter. But if antenna dimensions are critical then it
DOES
matter. As far as performance of insulated wire as a radiator of RF, the
effect
is negligible.

Yuri, K3BU

Yuri:

You are answering a question that was not asked. Your answer is excellent if
the question we Is it necessary, when calculating element length, to
consider the type of wire used?

If you calculate based on insulated wire and then build it out of bare wire,
it ain't going to work well either.

Assuming one calculates for whatever radiating thingy one is using, it makes
little difference whether that thingy is bare or insulated.

Paul AB0SI