Tom Donaly, KA6RUH:

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.


Go to www.K3BU.us and look at the article, measurements and pictures.
http://www.k3bu.us/loadingcoils.htm

Cecil explained what's happening, shined some light on it and the work is in
progress to enlighten the flat earth society.
It is not "our theory", it is reality that was described before us by Kraus,
ON4UN and others.

I used the knowledge to design more efficient mobile antenna for 160.

If you understand the current distribution along the loaded antenna, then you
can maximize it for better efficiency (roughly proportional to the area under
the current curve).

Stand by.

Yuri, K3BU.us