RadioBanter - View Single Post - Current across the antenna loading coil

April 18th 06, 01:30 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:
What it is NOT possible to do is make a coil change current without
that third path to the outside world. Standing waves will not do it,
missing antenna degrees will not do it.

That's a really strange thing to say, Tom. It happens all the time
inside a piece of coax with reflections. There's no third path to
the outside world, yet the standing waves inside a piece of coax
certainly cause the current to change.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp