Cecil Moore wrote:
The delay through the coil depends on inductance and capacitance.

Yes, but the delay is not measurable using standing
wave current because standing wave current doesn't
change phase in a coil or in a wire.

But you aren't measuring it. The point is, it's calculable.

So your claim is that information about Bugcatcher coils with a load
resistor attached is more useful?

It is more useful for determining the delay through the
coil.

The fact that it doesn't give you an answer that agrees with any other
method notwithstanding.

If you were trying to measure the phase shift
through a 1/4WL stub, would you use the standing wave
current with its zero phase shift?

If I were trying to measure delay I would use pulses.

Or would you terminate
the stub in its characteristic impedance and measure
the phase shift in the subsequent traveling wave?

I would want the system to be configured in exactly the same way as I
intended for it to be used.

Given: http://www.w5dxp.com/openstus.GIF

How would you determine the phase shift at any point
in the open stub?

Given: http://www.w5dxp.com/termstus.GIF

How would you determine the phase shift at any point
in the terminated stub?

The phase shift of what, with respect to what?

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