Cecil Moore wrote:

Please describe the pulse you intend to use on a
1/4WL long standing-wave antenna.

Kind of a wispy brunette one, about 5'7". What difference would it
make, Cecil? One that is short compared to the delay.

If the delay through the loading coil in a standing-
wave antenna could be measured in situ, then there
would not be any argument. But maybe I am missing
something. How would you propose to measure the delay
through a loading coil during steady-state for a
standing-wave antenna?

When you post a question in that way I gotta wonder what you must
think is going on inside an antenna. What's different about the
'situ' during steady state that causes electromagnetic fields to
propagate differently than at other times?

73, ac6xg