Ian White GM3SEK wrote:

Ian, I am leaving on a 6 state motorcycle trip and won't be
back until Monday. I would like for you to answer this
question while I am gone.

I've heard that, while operating portable, if I attach
a wire to my 75m mobile whip and run it up a tree, I
will be able to make more contacts. So I attach a 1/4WL
wire to the whip of my 75m mobile bugcatcher system.

I decide to measure the current "into" the bottom of the
coil and "out" of the top of the coil. To my utter amazement
I measure 1.3 amps flowing "into" the bottom of the coil and
2.1 amps flowing "out" of the top of the coil.

How does your lumped circuit theory explain that? Where is
that extra 0.8 amps of current coming from?

Please don't insult our intelligence by saying it cannot
happen. It does happen. I suspect you are at a loss to
explain it.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp