Dellquay13
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My main argument was that fine strands are better at high frequencies, and i mentioned fish finder transducers on purpose, my lowrance unit works on a few frequencies including 450mhz and 800mhz i believe.Your ears must be quite special.
Most - See Does speaker wire affect sound quality? No Myths, Just Facts for a very typical article on the subject - don't agree that speaker cable makes the slightest difference to perceived audio quality. It's certainly nothing to do with skin-effect as the the highest demodulated audio frequency which an HF set puts out up is only around 2.7kHz. At that frequency the skin depth in Copper is well over 1 mm so will provide no effective high frequency cut off at all.
Edit: unless you mean For the Antenna rather than for the speaker (despite using 'speaker wire')? But even so, the issue is likely to be a fraction of a dB in receiver sensitivity at 7 or 14MHz I'd have thought. Much more plausible than skin-effect would be a difference in making good terminations, where the softer and more flexible speaker cable could be advantageous.
Off boating topic but in my day job as Av engineer and sometimes recording engineer, i can hear the difference between cheap 6a copper wire and £80/100m 79strand on the right speakers. I can't hear the difference though between 79 strand and audiophile cable costing ten times as much.