Cecil Moore wrote:

Jim Kelley wrote:


Richard Harrison wrote:
Iz = Io cos beta(z)

Excellent. Roy is telling us that beta(z) at one end of the coil is
essentially equal to beta(z) at the other end of the coil.

Which requires a lossless, non-radiating coil with zero capacitance.

Just out of curiosity, to which of those characteristics do you
attribute the phase delay?

73, Jim AC6XG