John Popelish wrote:
The pattern of how this sinusoidal current varies in both phase and
magnitude is very different in the two cases (standing and traveling
waves), but you need both a phase reference and multiple locations to
see the differences.

Exactly! And the multiple locations are available for us to
measure.

Since you like handicaps so much, how about just plucking
out your eyeballs and chopping off your hands? :-)
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp