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Old April 12th 06, 01:09 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
John Popelish
 
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Default Current across the antenna loading coil - from scratch

Cecil Moore wrote:
Gene Fuller wrote:

(snip)
C'mon, you know as well as anybody that inductance of a coil tends to
increase as n-squared. Yes, there are all kinds of special cases and
correction factors.



Increasing the length of a coil or transmission line doesn't
change its velocity factor at a fixed frequency.

(snip)

That is an interesting hypothesis.

How would you go about testing its validity?

(Have you heard of end effects?)