The method will weaken the wire, but the elements won’t have ... If you want the history and theory behind the venerable yagi antenna, you’ll want to revisit this post.

a beam antenna like a Yagi, or even just a random wire vertical antenna. All of these will need to be connected feedline of some sort, and in the likely event you reach for some 50-ohm coax cable ...

Key aspects of the electromagnetic wave behavior and design of antennas and antenna arrays from wire dipoles and Yagi-Uda antennas above the Earth’s surface to aperture antennas such as horns and ...