Cecil wrote,

Mark Keith wrote:
I'm *still* of the opinion that if you could measure the current INSIDE
the windings of the coil, a couple or three turns in from each end, you
would not see near the difference you all do.

Wes's and my modeling show a smooth current taper through the coil.
Here's the taper predicted by EZNEC through the coil for octcoil1.ez

http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp/taper1.gif

I do think it's quite normal to have a slight taper, ....

Then you disagree with the guys who say it has no taper. Guess what,
Mark? That puts you on my and Yuri's side of the argument.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


This is an order of magnitude error. In the thirteenth century, the
scholastics would tell their pupils that, since the earth is a ball,
if you build two buildings side by side and use a plumb line to build
each one, the buildings will be farther apart at the top than at the bottom.
Also, if you have a swimming pool with a perfectly flat bottom, the
center will be deeper than the sides because it's closer to the center
of the earth.
No normal people paid any attention to these fellows. The scholastics never
specified
what things meant in terms of real numbers. Cecil says there's a taper but he
doesn't
attempt to say how much. Yuri thinks it's a lot. Cecil seems to agree
with him, but neither fellow has been willing to back his theory with a
$$$$ NEW $$$ [{### IMPROVED ###}] mobile antenna. I think any
rational observer would have to conclude that if Yuri and Cecil are right,
they're only right in the 13th cent. scholastic sense, and that their whole
argument doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH