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Old April 9th 06, 02:22 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore
 
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Default Current across the antenna loading coil - from scratch

Roy Lewallen wrote:
The RMS value of current doesn't flow.


I'm glad you agree. That is what I have been telling
you for about a year now. Obviously, my question was
rhetorical.

Your assertion sure shoots down your and W8JI's argument
that current flows into the bottom of the coil and out of
the top of the coil, doesn't it? You guys reported measuring
RMS current flowing into the bottom of the coil and out
the top. Now you deny that the current you measured was
flowing at all. I would say we are making progress.

I have been very careful to talk about the standing wave
current *at* the bottom and *at* the top of the coil, not
about the current *flowing* into the bottom of the coil
and out the top of the coil as you and W8JI have.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp