Mark Keith wrote:
My argument boils down to: What does this mean to the antenna builder
or modeler?

Probably a little more than the theory of relativity which seems
to be quite important in the scheme of things.

If any discrepancy is so small to be barely measurable,
all this speculation about gross error when modeling is *to me* a load
of hooey. Even if the current varies, which BTW, I never claimed would
be exactly perfect front to back, it should have so little effect on
accuracy to be a non issue. Where is the beef that this claimed
variation of current across a coil causes drastic modeling or coil
placement calculation errors? Sorry, I just don't see it. What am I
missing here? MK

Well, for instance, EZNEC cannot directly model the phased array
in Kraus' book which requires the coils to perform a 180 degree
phase shift in the current. Don't you think that is useful information?
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73, Cecil, W5DXP