Cecil Moore wrote:
Yuri Blanarovich wrote:

Cecil, fuggetaboutit, don't waste your time, looks like this is one of
those
smart alec trollers. Who cares what they "know".


Looks like Tom would rather argue with his wife than with Balanis or me.
(I don't blame him for that.) I had relatively long discussions with
Balanis
and he personally agreed with everything I have posted although he didn't
go to such lengths in his book.


Suuuurrrre he did.





Thanks for your contribution to the subject. Looks like I should put the
article together, looks like misguided "experts" are confusing the issue.
I hope to find some time now, WX is getting about right, time to get
out the
gadgets and some real life measurements and modeling helixes in EZNEC.


Who's going to publish it? I spent a lot of time preparing an article on
what happens at a match point and QEX refused to consider publishing
anything that disagreed in the slightest with Dr. Best who denied there
is such a thing as interference at a match point. (Hint: Without
interference,
a match is impossible in a system with reflections.) There's a
good-old-boys
network in amateur radio. If you are politically incorrect within the ARRL
political power structure, you are black-balled from publishing. It doesn't
matter if you are technically correct. The current through a loading coil
is constant by definition in that good-old-boys network. Forget reality.

And now there's a cabal of old boys conspiring against you and Yuri.
This just keeps getting better and better. For those who really want to
know the truth, go to Tom Rauch's web site and read about loading coils.
(He doesn't use the term "current drop" once."
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH