K7ITM wrote:
In fact, if there were no such current -- if there were no capacitance
from the coil to the world outside the coil -- then the time delay
through the coil, calculated from tau = sqrt(L*C), would be zero. It
is exactly this current that allows there to be a transmission-line
behaviour and a corresponding time delay.

Tom, have you read what Dr. Corum had to say about that on
page 8 of http://www.ttr.com/corum/index.htm? Here's a partial
quote: "The problem has been that many experimenters working
self-resonant helices have pursued the concept of coil self-
capacitance without really understanding where the notion
comes from or why it was ever invoked by engineers."
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp