Tom Donaly wrote:
For someone like me, Cecil can be (but usually isn't) a very useful
crackpot. I can be pretty sure he's wrong, but the process of educating
myself into turning that hunch into a dead certainty that I can prove
to everyone (except him) can be enlightening.

Now's your chance to enlighten us, Tom. Please explain again
how the standing wave current magnitude on a 1/2WL thin-wire
dipole doesn't depend upon how many degrees it is away from
the feed point, i.e. doesn't contain any phase information.

While you are at it, please explain exactly how Kraus is mistaken
about this antenna when he plots the standing wave current as
I = cos(X) where X is the number of degrees away from the
feedpoint and feedpoint current equals 1 amp at 0 degrees.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp