Cecil Moore wrote:
That's exactly the difference. But if you measure a single point,
you can't tell whether you are measuring a point on a traveling wave
or a standing wave. Agree?

I agree but who would be stupid enough to measure just a single
point?

Electronic components are exactly that stupid. They have no conception
of traveling or standing waves. They react simply to the voltages and
currents they experience at their terminals.

As far as current is concerned, that means the simple movement of charge
past a single point.

You see a larger picture of the whole antenna, so you can choose many
different ways to theorize about it. But your theory cannot be correct
if it requires that components behave in different, special ways
according to the way you happen to be thinking about it at the time.



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