AI4QJ wrote:
"Gene Fuller" wrote in message news:25J4j.191181
By the way, saying something is "impossible" is religion, not science. The
distance from one end of the coil to the other is clearly within reach
without violating the speed of light.

But not in 3 nsec. To go from one end to the other end of the 53 foot coil
would be to travel at 53.84E8 m/sec, more than 10 times the speed of light.



So you think an EM wave cannot travel 10 inches in 3 ns? Try again.

You appear to be suffering from the same disease that afflicts Cecil.
Plugging your preferred answer into the calculation might make the
solution easy, but it does not necessarily make it correct.

Since you seem to be somewhat oblivious to what is being debated, let me
restate it.

It is widely accepted that some configurations exhibit a "round and
round the wire mode." Helix antennas and traveling wave tubes fall into
that category.

It is also widely accepted that EM radiation is real, and travels the
speed of light in the appropriate medium.

It is also widely accepted that the "lumped circuit model" is useful in
many configurations.

The entire debate, if all of the personality nonsense is ignored, is
over the appropriate regimes for these "widely accepted" explanations.

Cecil insists that an 80 meter loading coil behaves nearly the same as
one of Corum's quarter-wave resonators. Others believe the coil behavior
is closer to a lumped circuit model.

Your assignment is to do the math to figure out just where in that
spectrum the truth lies.

Hint: "I lags V" is not helpful for the solution.

Good luck!

73,
Gene
W4SZ