Exactly the same thing can be said about a lossless unterminated
transmission line. If lumped circuit analysis doesn't work on
transmission lines with reflections, why should it be expected
to work on antennas with reflections?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



While I agree with this statement, it still doesn't prove anything
about the value of the characteristic impedance and electrical
length of a loading coil and the relationship between these
parameters and the inductive reactance of the loading coil.
This is what bothers me about the claims that the "cosine law"
can be used to predict the current taper in the loading coil.
Seems that there is a big leap of faith taking place when going
from the observation (which I believe is correct) that current
taper is caused by standing waves on the resonant antenna,
and a "law" that says what we can predict that taper with a
simple formula without saying anything about the shunt
capacitance per unit length and series inductance per
unit length of the loading coil, quantities which normally
bear directly on the characteristic impedance and velocity
of propagation of the EM structure (at least in an
analogous transmission line case).

73 de Mike, W4EF.............................................



Exactly the same thing can be said about a lossless unterminated
transmission line. If lumped circuit analysis doesn't work on
transmission lines with reflections, why should it be expected
to work on antennas with reflections?
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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