Yuri,

I think you're missing the point - just as Cecil is. You seem to have
forgotten that I agree with the idea that there is a current gradient
across these inductors - just as there is a current gradient along any
quarter wavelength of transmission line with standing waves. That
doesn't mean there's more current "going in one end" than is "coming out
of the other end." It's a sophomoric notion. Do you wanna be a
simpleton? You're almost there with this nonsense. Why do you want to
screw up a valid idea by attaching a ridiculous one to it?

73, Jim AC6XG



OK, so it is more current "coming out in one end", than is "coming in at the
other end"?
Is this what IS is?
The argument was "virtually same" vs. "different" (gradient, more at one end
than the other, etc.)
Are we taking off on tangents to muddy the waters?
I am almost done with cleaning the "lab", wx is warming up, I will soon get
out, do more tests and finish the article.
More articles I see in publications, more perpetuation of the wrong picture and
idea that current is the same in loading coils. Even QEX and new Antenna Book
keep on misleading.


Yuri, K3BU/m