Richard Harrison wrote:
Should the current at both terminals of a loading coil happen to be the
same, it would likely be a rare coincidence.

All one has to do to see radical changes in the currents
at the ends of the coil is move the coil up and down
a 3/4WL radiator. One can find a place where current
at the top of the coil is five times the current at
the bottom of the coil. That's just the way standing
wave current works. Too bad there are so many myths
and old wives' tales being spread about it by alleged
"experts" who have forgotten EE201.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp