Lets get a bit more elementary - are you sure that wire has DC continuity end to end when its up and tensioned ???
I once bought a roll of wire from HD that had a gap of about an inch in it Maybe your wire is not all connected -that would move the ant up in freq from where you expect. If you still had a good old rugged tube amp you could match it it and feed a KW or so into and see if a gap catches on fire-or end melts and falls off . (Lets the smoke out of the wire ) Hank K7HP ----- On Mar 25, 2021, at 1:56 PM, N4ZR <[email protected]> wrote: Jim, ignorant question - at X=0, isn't the resistive component also the impedance? 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at <http://beta.reversebeacon.net>. For spots, please use your favorite "retail" DX cluster. _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
