Tom Donaly wrote:
If
he applies his reference formulae to one of Tom's coils and it
doesn't show the correct phase shift, though, his theory is in trouble.

His reference formulae are for traveling waves, not standing waves.
We already know that the phase of the standing wave current on a
1/2WL thin-wire dipole varies not one degree over that entire
180 degrees. Yet we know the forward wave undergoes a 90 degree
phase shift from feedpoint to tip and the reflected wave undergoes
a 90 degree phase on the trip back to the feedpoint. Standing wave
phase is virtually unchanging and is therefore useless for trying
to determine the electrical length of a wire or a coil.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp