Wes Stewart wrote:
I began this thread with a pointer to:
http://www.qsl.net/n7ws/Loaded%20antennas.htm

Sorry, that page wouldn't load on my computer at the time
so I never read it. I will read it this afternoon. In the
meantime, is there anything in the paper that will defeat
the following argument?

Consider a mobile helical antenna for 75m. Will anyone
assert that the current at the bottom of the antenna is
equal to the current at the tip of the antenna?

Add a one foot stinger and reduce the length of the helical
until it is again resonant. Will anyone assert that the
current into the antenna is equal to the current into the
stinger?

Make the stinger two feet and resonate the antenna. Will
anyone assert that the current into the antenna is equal
to the current into the stinger?

Keep up this iteration until the current into the coil is
equal to the current out of the coil.

At exactly what length of coil does the current taper
magically disappear?
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73, Cecil, W5DXP