On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 09:07:28 -0700, Bill Turner
wrote:

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:48:55 -0600, 'Doc wrote:

Folding, or wrapping the wire around it's self in effect
makes that doubled portion 'dissapear'.

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But having a spool of wire there will add some capacitance to the
antenna, thus lowering it's resonant frequency a bit.

And having a spool of insulated wire there will add a gob of
inductance and with close-spaced turns: loss.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC