Cecil Moore wrote:
The current in a standing-
wave antenna wire is NOT constant, varies inch by inch, and that's a
*straight* piece of wire.

Or more precisely, the amplitude of the mathematical superposition of
forward and reverse traveling wave currents in a half-wave dipole
antenna varies inch by inch.
It is the EM fields produced by the traveling wave currents that in fact
superpose. That superposition results in a net field which is identical
to the field which would be produced if a 'standing wave current' could
in fact radiate.

Did you notice W8JI changed his web page? The once outrageous statements
have been considerably modified.

I've noticed fewer of them on your web page as well, Cecil. Perhaps the
world is coming to equilibrium. :-)

73, Jim AC6XG