Roy Lewallen wrote:
Indeed. And I even gave the answer some time ago -- the phase of the
total current (which Cecil seems to like calling the "standing wave"
current) is the same all along the line.

But Roy, you measured the phase of the standing wave current to
try to convince us there was no phase shift through a loading
coil. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot use the phase
of the standing wave current to measure a phase shift through
a loading coil and then tell us the phase of the standing wave
current is the same all along the line. So which story are you
going to chose?

I suspect that when you made those measurements, you didn't
realize that standing wave antennas have standing wave currents
and that the currents reported by EZNEC for standing wave
antennas are standing wave currents with unchanging phase.

If the phase of the standing wave current cannot be used to
measure the delay through a wire, what made you think it could
be used to measure the delay through a loading coil?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp