On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:09:44 -0600, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Your motive with all this handing waving is unclear.
It's only purpose is to illustrate traveling waves on a
single piece of wire.

Three pieces of wire, one of them yours (a piece of trash as you
describe it; and two of mine, following the conventions of their
designers). The demonstration is remarkable enough to accomplish what
you set out to do, clear up the confusion about standing waves on a
Rhombic, and then later a Beverage