Roy Lewallen wrote:
I hate to see Cecil and others criticizing Tom's (W8JI) measurements,

I know you hate to see your and Tom's errors exposed.
But you have already confessed that even EZNEC says
that standing-wave current phase is almost unchanging
all up and down a 1/2WL dipole.

Which means that your "measurement" using standing-
wave current to measure phase shift through a loading
coil is something that you are well aware is invalid -
yet you have asserted that you are standing by that same
(invalid) "measurement". What is your agenda?

It
means making careful measurements with good equipment and methodology
which give different results. I'm sure we'll never see this from Cecil.

On the contrary, I reported a ~25 nS delay through my
75m bugcatcher loading coil when it was loaded with
a 3600 ohm load. Although this is an estimate from
observing current waveforms, it is close enough to
prove that is could never be the 3 nS reported by W8JI.
W8JI's delay "measurement" is off by a magnitude. Your
phase "measurements" are completely meaningless.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com