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See.....There's the miscommunication....There's a difference between opinion and structured, proven fact, DB is giving facts but because you don't understand it, you just chalk it off as an opinion. There's inductance and capacitance in every length of wire and the amount depends on the wire size and type. 22' of stranded will have a different value than 22' of solid. Silver plated, a different value than unplated copper. 18awg will be different than 14 or 22awg. If it were as simple as just cutting a piece of wire a certain length, we wouldn't have 2000 different 1/4-5/8 wave antennas, would we? You need to know the characteristics of the wire being used in order to build an optimum antenna from it. Also, if it were that simple, people wouldn't have written no less than 100 books on the subject matter.

[QUOTE="144inBama, post: 781906, member: 58064"] See.....There's the miscommunication....There's a difference between [B]opinion[/B] and structured, proven fact, DB is giving facts but because you don't understand it, you just chalk it off as an opinion. There's inductance and capacitance in every length of wire and the amount depends on the wire size and type. 22' of stranded will have a different value than 22' of solid. Silver plated, a different value than unplated copper. 18awg will be different than 14 or 22awg. If it were as simple as just cutting a piece of wire a certain length, we wouldn't have 2000 different 1/4-5/8 wave antennas, would we? You need to know the characteristics of the wire being used in order to build an optimum antenna from it. Also, if it were that simple, people wouldn't have written no less than 100 books on the subject matter. [/QUOTE]

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