Cecil Moore wrote:

If the system contains only traveling waves, the delay
is proportional to the phase shift. If the system contains
only standing waves, the delay is completely unrelated to
the phase shift since the phase shift is always zero over
any 1/2WL between the current nodes. EZNEC supports that
fact and w7el has admitted such in a previous posting.

Kraus and Balanis both agree with the above assertion.

I'm surprised they ever used EZNEC, or discussed systems that have
standing waves, and nothing else.

Standing wave current does not change phase relative to
the source current. Everyone technical person agrees on
that fact of physics.

Yes, and that's by virtue of the fact that standing waves are entirely
dependent on traveling waves. In fact, standing waves don't do anything
on their own.

What's amazing is that you continue to insist on attributing
interference with supernatural powers - "redistribution"
being one, "delaying" itself apparently being another.

Therefore, standing wave current phase cannot be used to
measure delay through a wire or through a coil.

We've seen how you can calculate it. So, given that phase and delay are
completely unrelated as you have explained, please describe if you would
how one would go about actually measuring standing wave current delay -
whatever that is.

This is
such a simple concept that any disagreement must be
considered to be a conspiracy to hoodwink the uninitiated.
Exactly what do you guys have to gain from hoodwinking
the unwashed masses???

The suggestion sounds a little nutty to me, to be honest. Is it
possible that you might be mistaken about any of this?

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