Suddenly it occurred to me to question the thickness of wire in a balun, and this led me to question the thickness of wire for antenna elements.

This, my dudes and dudettes, is how you ride a seguey 😜

Doing a little extrapolation from some questions on the general class exam, I suspected bigger wire would be better (more surface area), and some research confirms that, at least to a point, this is true.

Consequently, I think I'm going to go back up in the damn attic, and fairly soon, and replace my 24ga stranded wire dipole elements with some made of 18ga stranded wire, and see if I can't get that SWR down a few points.

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