Jim Kelley wrote:
In the face of such a redoubtable accusation I'm somewhat reluctant to
admit my view that a phase shift across a coil of this sort would in
fact be directly proportional to any propagation delay through that coil.

That's certainly true for traveling-wave current.
Definitely not true for standing-wave current which
doesn't change phase. I don't know that the comprehension
problem is here - maybe this graph will help.

http://www.w5dxp.com/travstnd.gif
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