Cecil Moore wrote:
To all: Ian is not addressing the issue which is: Can a standing wave
current phase measurement be used to tell us anything about the phase
shift through a loading coil? The answer is NO!

I flatly do not accept your notion of a special kind of "standing wave
current" that has its own special kind of phase properties.

The current that the loading coil experiences is plain old ordinary
alternating current flowing in the wire - the simple movement of
electrons back and forth past a point, according to It = I0 cos wt. That
is also the current that an RF ammeter reports, and the current that a
computer simulation reports too.

Any special kind of current that requires electronic components to
behave in some different way from normal is simply not real.

You have a fundamental misconception of what a standing wave of current
really is. You repeat all the words about "standing waves", "cos kz",
"scientific logic", "laws of physics" etc; but you don't actually let
any of it into your mind.

All the questions you ask other people are rooted in your own
misconceptions. In other words, the questions are rigged so that they
cannot be answered except by agreeing with you. And if someone very
sensibly does not answer - why, you "win" that way too. I don't believe
you realise how regularly you do this.



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73 from Ian GM3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek