Yuri Blanarovich wrote:
Check my article that describes the controversy, shows some proof of
reality and then efforts of the "gurus" to deny it and "reason" why
it can't be so. http://www.k3bu.us/loadingcoils.htm The problem is
that back in 1953 in QST article there was erroneous
conclusion/statement made, which propagated through the books, until
W9UCW measured the current across the loading coils and found that
there is significant drop from one end to the other, and the rest is
(ongoing) history

Hmm, certainly it would seem to make sense that:

The current in a typical loading coil in the shortened antennas drops
across the coil roughly corresponding to the segment of the radiator
it replaces.

Quote from your page.

I would not expect anything else. If the loading coil is making the
antenna act like a physically longer antenna, other "qualities" of that
simulation are likely to be similar.

Is there a reason why the coil would *not* do this?

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -