Tom Donaly wrote:
Cecil, you can always know something you already know. Knowing that your
antenna is 1/2 wavelength long gives you all the information you need
for your definition of phase.

Apparently that knowledge is not enough for W7EL who said
regarding the current distribution in a 1/2WL thin-wire
dipole:

W7EL wrote:
Of course I reject the notion that there's "phase information
in the standing wave current magnitude".

This in the face of technical evidence that the standing
wave current magnitude is a cosine function of the number
of degrees the referenced point is away from the feedpoint.

Also contradicting Gene Fuller who said:
The only "phase" remaining is the cos (kz) term, which is really
an amplitude description, not a phase.

By the way, where did you get that table, from EZNEC?

From page 464 of "Antennas for all Applications", 3rd Edition,
by Kraus and Marhefka. Where Kraus presents the independent
variable in fractions of a wavelength, I simply converted it
to degrees. Most knowledgeable people comprehend that there
are 360 degrees per sinusoidal cycle, i.e. per one wavelength.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp