Yuri Blanarovich wrote:
Let's back off one more giant step back to measurements. Show where W9UCW
was "cheating" in his test setup, pictures and comments at
http://www.k3bu.us/loadingcoils.htm
where he shows clearly that RF current drops significantly across (through)
the loading coil, just like it drops across (through) the resonant antenna
(piece of wire or tubing) from max at the base, to zero at the tip.

Displacement currents in the inductor and the very high reactance of
the very short antenna above the coil explain current difference.

Current cannot vanish Yuri. It has to have an alternative path.

I can change current difference at each end of the inductor all over
the place depending on the design of the loading coil, with NO change
in the loading coil position or antenna lengths.

It is the theory you have, that the current is tied to the "missing
degrees", that is wrong.

Without displacement currents there is no current difference at each
end of the coil, it is not caused by "missing degrees. It is caused by
the capacitance above the coil being very low and the capacitance of
the coil to the outside world being much larger. The current is not all
gone in the first few turns either. It is a series reactance/shunt
reactance problem.

73 Tom