[Elecraft] RE: zip cord as antenna wire

[Peter Wollan]

Guy Ollinger wrote:
"For the most part, common zip cord insulation has ABSOLUTELY AWFUL
dielectric losses."

I had known that this means that zip cord makes bad transmission line.
Does it also imply that it makes bad antenna wire?  That is, does an
unzipped cord, single wire, radiate much worse than wires with other
kinds of insulation, when used in a tuned dipole?  Or a wire tossed in a
tree plus a ground radial?

Zip cord is so cheap ....

	Peter N8MHD