Roy Lewallen wrote:
You don't need to go to anywhere near that much trouble. If you replace
the stinger with a lumped series RC to ground with the same impedance as
the stinger, you'll get nearly the same currents, both magnitude and
phase, at the top and bottom of the coil as you did with the stinger. No
"missing degrees" -- no "degrees" at all, in fact. No forward and
reverse traveling waves, no standing waves.

No understanding of the laws of physics -
just 1001 shortcuts and rules of thumb -
consistent with the dumbing down of the
US educational system and amateur radio.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp