Knarf wrote:
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Richard Clark wrote:

Rarely do we get any practical correlation from this "sky is falling"
oops "current is dropping" argument.

Asserting that the argument is about any practical correlation is
a diversion of the issue. THE ARGUMENT IS ABOUT THE CURRENT IN A
LOADING COIL, not about the radiation pattern. The radiation pattern
is completely irrelevant to the argument. One side says the current
is absolutely constant except for radiation. The other side says it
is not constant (except for special cases). An electrical 1/4WL loaded
mobile antenna is not one of the special cases.


Sorry, this may sound dumb, I think I must have missed the point. Why are
people arguing about current in a loading coil? NEC, and experiment, seem
to provide the answer.

73,

Frank



Hi Frank,
you're right, there shouldn't be any argument. There is more
than one way to make a loading coil. If you will visit Tom Rauch's web
page, you will see that he believes he has a method for making a
superior loading coil for small, mobile antennas. Some of the characters
on this newsgroup have misrepresented what he wrote to assert that he
believes that all loading coils behave as an ideal inductance where
the current at both ends of the inductor are the same. Read what Tom
actually wrote and then go back and look at what these people said he
wrote and you'll see the two aren't the same.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH