Gene Fuller wrote:
At the time, Cecil was still clinging to the notion that if someone did
the measurements properly they could elicit the original phase
information contained in the traveling wave components.

Sorry, Gene, you misunderstood what I was saying. That's why you
accidentally posted technical information that supported my side
of the argument without realizing it at the time. (Remember, I said
you were a genius for posting it and I thank you.)

What I previously said was: If the reflected wave could be eliminated,
as in a traveling wave antenna (like a terminated Rhombic) then
we could measure the actual delay through a loading coil using
the forward traveling wave, the only wave left in the system.

Here's one leg of a terminated Rhombic:

source-------------////////------------------load
coil

When I said the delay through a coil could be measured using a
traveling wave, this is what I had in mind.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp