steveeh131047 wrote:
I've read
various web pages and postings which argue qualitatively that things
like "distributed capacitance" might explain some of the observations,
but as yet I've seen no quantitative analysis which attempts to
predict the numbers.

Hi Steve,

For a more quantitative illustration of how distributed reactance in
transmission lines causes delay see
http://www.rhombus-ind.com/dlcat/app1_pas.pdf

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