"Joel365" wrote in message
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I have a dipole with 134 feet of 20 gauge insulated copper wire. What
would happen if I wanted to replace one leg (67 feet) with 18 gauge
copper clad insulated steel wire but chose to keep the other leg with
the 20 gauge wire?
Tks,
Joel

You probably would not notice anything on 80 meters. It is possiable that
the wire not being insulated and a differant size will cause a slight shift
in the resonate frequency, but I doubt that you will notice it.
It is sort of like having a truck load of bricks. If you add one more
brick, there is an effect, just too slight to make any differance. Unless
someone told you the brick was added, you would not notice it.