Mike, W4EF wrote:
"What I am getting at is that both camps may be wrong."

One of the arguments is that current into one end of a loading coil
equals current out of the other end of the coil. That is not required of
an antenna loading coil in the middle of an antenna. Recall the diagram
of a center loaded short vertical whip from ON4UN`s Fig 9-22 that Yuri
Blanarovich posted early in the dispute. 45-degrees of the 90-degree
total antenna length is replaced by the loading coil. Current tapers
cosinusoidally from 1A at the drivepoint to 0A at the tip.

Cosine of 22.5-degrees = 0.924
Cosine of 67.5-degrees = 0.383

Roy sarcastically referred to "Yuri`s Cosine law". Yuri is right.
Current into the bottom of the coil is 0.924 A, and into the top of the
coil it is 0.383 A. Roy disappeared from the argument.
Yuri seems to have tired of the dispute too.

On page 86, King, Mimno, and Wing say:
"It is fundamentally incorrect to treat a centerdriven antenna as though
it were the bent-open ends of a two-wire line."

This is true for a whip as a continuation of a coax line too. The
antenna should radiate and the line should not. The difference between
an antenna and a transmission line is fundamental. Consider the
equivalent circuit of the balanced line. It is made from distributed
series-connected inductors with distributed capacitors shunted across
the inductor junctions. The two line conductors are closely coupled and
enforce balance in the line. The close equal and opposite currents
discourage radiation from the line.

Attach a non-radiating balanced load across the feedline. The currents
into both terminals of the load must be the same. There is much looser
coupling between the two sides of a dipole than between the wires of a
transmission line.

In a transmission line feeding a mismatched load, the reflected energy
"sees" Zo as does the incident energy traveling the line. Zo is enforced
in both directions by the inductance and capacitance distributed
uniformly in the line.

Due to energy escape in an antenna, incident and reflected energy can
"see" differing impedances on either end of a loading coil. The coil
doesn`t enjoy the type of enforced balanced feed imposed by a balanced
transmission. The feed at its ends is asymmetrical.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI