Richard Clark wrote:
The are obviously seduced by their own math
models where less current emerges from a resistor than goes in. ;-)

What does your lumped circuit math model say about resistors used
on a frequency where the resistor plus its leads is 1/4WL long? At
that frequency, why are you surprised that the current in is different
from the current out (in the presence of standing waves)?

Heck, I have seen a GDO find the resonant frequency of a resistor
with the leads shorted together (that's the entire circuit).
Do you think the current is the same everywhere in a resistor
that is a 1/2WL loop?
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73, Cecil, W5DXP