John Popelish wrote:
I am still having a
bit of trouble visualizing how the coil was instrumented and terminated
to get this result. I am also a beginner when it comes to S parameters.

I think Tom did what I did the other night. I hooked the coil
across my IC-756PRO's output, used minimum power, and tried
to supply 4 MHz power to the 4+j1250 ohm coil that I have.
It naturally rejected (reflected) virtually all of that power.
I found, as Tom did, that the standing wave current at both
ends has virtually identical phases but that is already known.
The delay through the coil simply cannot be tested in that
test arrangement. Tom just repeated Roy's experiment of a
few years ago and obtained the same meaningless results.
So did I so I didn't even bother to report them.

My reservation with you and few others is your emotional
investment in being correct. It makes your opinions less
trustworthy.

Whoa there, I just made a mental blunder about radiation
resistance and readily admitted it. My emotional investment
is in fighting falsehoods, myths, and old wives' tales.
That's all.

The test method for determining the delay through a piece
of transmission line or a coil is the same as it has been
for more than a century. Find the 1/4WL self-resonant
point and calculate the delay. Other methods, resulting
in far different results, are obviously invalid.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp