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This long painful thread (it's been going on years now) started because
K3BU claimed a loading inductor had most of the current in the first
few turns.

I am back after loooong absence here and see more misinformation coming from
Tom, W8JI.

I claimed that current in the antenna coil is NOT CONSTANT (or near) as he
claimed.
The case was of electrical quarter wave vertical radiator (as loaded mobile
antenna) and that the current is distributed, varying across the coil as I
have experienced, W9UCW has measured and Cecil has explained.
The refresher is at
http://www.k3bu.us/loadingcoils.htm

The thread is "painful" because some people try to subvert the reality and
keep clinging to wrong "reality" and some try to set the record straight..
This misinformation keeps being perpetuated in literature and it even crept
into the latest ON4UN 4th edition of Low Band DXing (see page 9-33).

The significance of properly realizing the current distribution in the
loading coil is in how the modeling programs treat the phenomena and major
screw-up will show up in multi element loaded antenna systems, where error
will multiply and give false results.
There are few more statements slightly out of true on W8JI pages, but would
have to be left for later time.

I apologize for being away from this NG, my AOL provider dumped NG and I am
slowly dumping AOL and will migrate to optonline.net and back to NG. Also
business and other QRM keeps me away, but I hope is that "tings" will
improve.

73 to all
Yuri, K3BU
www.K3BU.us
www.TeslaRadio.org