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March 9th 06, 11:28 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:

What is the traveling wave current delay through the coil in
degrees? That's easy to measure. That current delay is the
degrees that the coil supplies to the antenna. You can ignore
any measurements involving standing wave current as being
essentially meaningless. What is important is the traveling-
wave current delay through the coil. Please measure it and
report what it is for your 'physically small toroid'.

Your lumped circuit analysis pre-assumes a zero delay
through the coil. That delay is certainly not zero in the real
world.

The problem with people doing work to verify this is even if several
people measure something, Cecil will ignore results.

73 Tom

Indeed. Or alter his interpretation to fit the data. Anyone interested
in seeing the results of careful measurements should see the "Current in
antenna loading coils controversy (long)" in November 2003, where I made
and reported just such measurements. Pay careful attention to Cecil's
various predictions of what the results would be using his method of
explanation.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL