[Antennas] Graphite Fishing Rod

Tue Sep 15 17:53:12 EDT 2009

Nope. First, it is essentially the same conductor due to capacitive 
coupling and it's not a shield unless you somehow ground the graphite. 
You're just trying to overcome the rather high resistance of the 
graphite. Works here...
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Joe wrote:
> Buyt then wouldn't it act as a pretty good shield?
>> Tom wrote:
>> Hi Dennis,
>>>> I have a graphite rod I tried to use but found the resistance of the rod 
>> to be too high causing loss. However the good news is that they are 
>> hollow so a nice copper conductor slides down the middle... :-)
>>>> 73, Tom
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