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Richard Clark April 20th 06 09:39 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:56:57 GMT, "Cecil Moore"
wrote:


"Richard Clark" wrote:
Asked: At one length, one coil exhibits Vf = 0.02,
reduce the coil length, what length for the SAME coil would that be
to render Vf = 0.2 for instance?


3. we are not changing pitch/lambda


So what is the pitch for one turn?


Turning aside what is obvious (that having been answered separately);
we can observe that one coil of a fixed pitch (it seems to bear
repeating for Cecil) does not exhibit a Vf increase from 0.02 to 0.2
by cutting the coil down to one turn. Cecil needs to accomplish what
is doable instead of turning to radical solutions that fail early.

Cecil Moore April 20th 06 09:53 PM

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"Richard Clark" wrote:
Pitch for any coil remains the same irrespective of its
length. Frequency does not change, diameter does not change; it then
follows that Vf does not change when a coil is shortened.


Gee, I wish I had said that. Now you can argue with Gene. :-)
--
73, Cecil, W5DXP



Cecil Moore April 20th 06 09:56 PM

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"Richard Clark" wrote:
Turning aside what is obvious (that having been answered separately);
we can observe that one coil of a fixed pitch (it seems to bear
repeating for Cecil) does not exhibit a Vf increase from 0.02 to 0.2
by cutting the coil down to one turn. Cecil needs to accomplish what
is doable instead of turning to radical solutions that fail early.


This is really strange. You are agreeing with what I have been saying
so your argument is with Gene, not me.

What I have said is that as the pitch is decreased the VF increases
and vice versa.
--
73, Cecil, W5DXP



Richard Clark April 20th 06 10:48 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:56:37 GMT, "Cecil Moore"
wrote:

"Richard Clark" wrote:
Turning aside what is obvious (that having been answered separately);
we can observe that one coil of a fixed pitch (it seems to bear
repeating for Cecil) does not exhibit a Vf increase from 0.02 to 0.2
by cutting the coil down to one turn. Cecil needs to accomplish what
is doable instead of turning to radical solutions that fail early.


This is really strange.


That you haven't answered the question? No, not strange at all.

Richard Clark April 20th 06 10:53 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:53:08 GMT, "Cecil Moore"
wrote:


"Richard Clark" wrote:
Pitch for any coil remains the same irrespective of its
length. Frequency does not change, diameter does not change; it then
follows that Vf does not change when a coil is shortened.


Gee, I wish I had said that. Now you can argue with Gene. :-)


So you didn't say it? You seem to have difficulty expressing concepts
then, don't you? I bet you can't even restate what you THINK has been
said to say it yourself.

No point in waiting, because I won that bet already.

Richard Clark April 20th 06 11:05 PM

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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:56:37 GMT, "Cecil Moore"
wrote:

"Richard Clark" wrote:
Turning aside what is obvious (that having been answered separately);
we can observe that one coil of a fixed pitch (it seems to bear
repeating for Cecil) does not exhibit a Vf increase from 0.02 to 0.2
by cutting the coil down to one turn. Cecil needs to accomplish what
is doable instead of turning to radical solutions that fail early.


What I have said is that as the pitch is decreased the VF increases
and vice versa.


You can't change the Vf by shortening a Vf = 0.02 coil, hmmm?
Remarkable shortening of your own theory there.

Perhaps you might want to try again using real numbers. Simply
because you play the pity card of forgetfulness (blaming your reader
usually as a bluff) we will reprise the question once again:

Asked: At one length, one coil exhibits
Vf = 0.02,
reduce the coil length, what length for the SAME coil would that be
to render
Vf = 0.2
for instance?

1. We are not changing frequency;
2. we are not changing diameter/lambda
(nor in fact changing diameter OR lambda);
3. we are not changing pitch/lambda
(nor in fact changing pitch OR lambda).

SAME coil means the one being offered, and being shortened - all other
provisos stand

Cecil Moore April 20th 06 11:32 PM

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Richard Clark wrote:
Asked: At one length, one coil exhibits
Vf = 0.02,
reduce the coil length, what length for the SAME coil would that be
to render
Vf = 0.2
for instance?


"Richard Clark" wrote:
Pitch for any coil remains the same irrespective of its
length. Frequency does not change, diameter does not change; it then
follows that Vf does not change when a coil is shortened.


Doesn't your own posting answer your question?
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Richard Clark April 21st 06 12:26 AM

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You can't change the Vf by shortening a Vf = 0.02 coil, hmmm?
Remarkable shortening of your own theory there.

Perhaps you might want to try again using real numbers. Simply
because you play the pity card of forgetfulness (blaming your reader
usually as a bluff) we will reprise the question once again:

Asked: At one length, one coil exhibits
Vf = 0.02,
reduce the coil length, what length for the SAME coil would that be
to render
Vf = 0.2
for instance?

1. We are not changing frequency;
2. we are not changing diameter/lambda
(nor in fact changing diameter OR lambda);
3. we are not changing pitch/lambda
(nor in fact changing pitch OR lambda).

SAME coil means the one being offered, and being shortened - all other
provisos stand

Cecil Moore April 21st 06 01:48 AM

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Richard Clark wrote:
You can't change the Vf by shortening a Vf = 0.02 coil, hmmm?
Remarkable shortening of your own theory there.


You appear to have forgotten which side you were arguing
but 1/2 of a turn should increase the VF over one turn.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Richard Clark April 21st 06 01:59 AM

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:48:54 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Richard Clark wrote:
You can't change the Vf by shortening a Vf = 0.02 coil, hmmm?
Remarkable shortening of your own theory there.


You appear to have forgotten which side you were arguing
but 1/2 of a turn should increase the VF over one turn.


You can't change the Vf by shortening a Vf = 0.02 coil, hmmm?
Remarkable shortening of your own theory there.

Perhaps you might want to try again using real numbers. Simply
because you play the pity card of forgetfulness (blaming your reader
usually as a bluff) we will reprise the question once again:

Asked: At one length, one coil exhibits
Vf = 0.02,
reduce the coil length, what length for the SAME coil would that be
to render
Vf = 0.2
for instance?

1. We are not changing frequency;
2. we are not changing diameter/lambda
(nor in fact changing diameter OR lambda);
3. we are not changing pitch/lambda
(nor in fact changing pitch OR lambda).

SAME coil means the one being offered, and being shortened - all other
provisos stand

Cecil Moore April 21st 06 08:35 AM

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Gene Fuller wrote:
You are the expert on Vf. You assert without proof that a half-length
coil has the same Vf as the full-length resonant coil. OK, even if I
accepted that supposition, what happens at a quarter-length or at a
tenth-length? I am simply asking how the function changes between the
"known" limits of 1.0 and 0.02. You have repeatedly ducked any sort of
answer.


Seems Richard Clark has proven that it doesn't change between
the "known" limits of 1.0 and 0.02. Where did those "known"
limits come from anyway?

For a single turn coil, seems the VF would roughly be the pitch
divided by the circumference, something that would equal 1.0 only
when the pitch and circumference were equal.

For the 4 TPI, 6" diameter coil, the VF formula yields 0.02.

The pitch divided by the circumference yields 0.013.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Cecil Moore April 21st 06 08:39 AM

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Richard Clark wrote:
You can't change the Vf by shortening a Vf = 0.02 coil, hmmm?
Remarkable shortening of your own theory there.


It was Gene Fuller who said the coil varied between the "known"
limits of 1.0 and 0.02, not I. I just replied to Gene's posting.
You and I seem to be in agreement that the VF of the coil doesn't
change with a change in length.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Gene Fuller April 21st 06 02:11 PM

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Cecil,

Since you have fallen back to the old "round and round the helix" model
there is little hope for agreement. It is interesting, however, that
even the Corum model for Vf at resonance is not as slow as the purely
geometric model. Must be those standing waves again.

73,
Gene
W4SZ

Cecil Moore wrote:
Gene Fuller wrote:

You are the expert on Vf. You assert without proof that a half-length
coil has the same Vf as the full-length resonant coil. OK, even if I
accepted that supposition, what happens at a quarter-length or at a
tenth-length? I am simply asking how the function changes between the
"known" limits of 1.0 and 0.02. You have repeatedly ducked any sort
of answer.



Seems Richard Clark has proven that it doesn't change between
the "known" limits of 1.0 and 0.02. Where did those "known"
limits come from anyway?

For a single turn coil, seems the VF would roughly be the pitch
divided by the circumference, something that would equal 1.0 only
when the pitch and circumference were equal.

For the 4 TPI, 6" diameter coil, the VF formula yields 0.02.

The pitch divided by the circumference yields 0.013.


Cecil Moore April 21st 06 03:10 PM

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"Gene Fuller" wrote:

W5DXP wrote:
For the 4 TPI, 6" diameter coil, the VF formula yields 0.02.

The pitch divided by the circumference yields 0.013.


Since you have fallen back to the old "round and round the helix" model
there is little hope for agreement. It is interesting, however, that
even the Corum model for Vf at resonance is not as slow as the purely
geometric model. Must be those standing waves again.


Anyone who says the current goes "round and round the helix"
is wrong. Anyone who says the current goes like a "short circuit
through the coil is wrong."

There is NO rail "round and round the helix'! There is NO rail
"short circuit through the coil"! There is, as usual, something in
between the two rails. Looking at Fig. 1 in Dr. Corum's IEEE paper:

For a diameter/wavelength ratio of 10^-3

If the coil is1000 turns/wavelength, the VF is 0.8 which is closer
to a "short circuit through the coil" than it is to "round and round
the helix".

If the coil is 5000 turns/wavelength, the VF is 0.18 which is
closer to "round and round the helix" than it is to a "short
circuit through the coil".

The field coupling between the coils is responsible for the VF
not being as slow as the purely geometric model but there is
a practical physical limit to the number of coils that are being
coupled.

Coils are a combination of primary and secondary characteristics.
All the primary characteristics need to be taken into account. Some
of the secondary characteristics can be omitted under certain
conditions.
--
73, Cecil, W5DXP



Michael Coslo April 21st 06 04:30 PM

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Richard Clark wrote:

Investigating Fig. 1 reveals there is no way to resolve the Vf through
shortening a coil. Only Cecil could argue there's a pony in all that
horse****, so while he's saddling himself to that mound, let's proceed
to see why his dotaged enthusiasm is ill-founded.




Wow! One of the bestest funniest paragraphs I've ever had the pleasure
of reading!

Remind me never to get on your bad side....... 8^)



Back on topic now. Was there ever any correlation between the
measurements made by Cecil and Yuri with the information and tests
performed by Tom W8JI? I had asked the question a couple times, but have
no answer yet. Maybe the message got lost.

I might be being simple here, but it seems that maybe if there was a
reasonable correlation drawn between the two instances.we could avoid
all the other junk going on.

Although getting wrapped around the axle apparently has its own
benefits to some.....

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -

Cecil Moore April 21st 06 05:12 PM

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"Michael Coslo" wrote:
Back on topic now. Was there ever any correlation between the
measurements made by Cecil and Yuri with the information and tests
performed by Tom W8JI? I had asked the question a couple times, but have
no answer yet. Maybe the message got lost.


Might have been when I was out of town. Except for a
single toroidal coil anomaly, all of the measurements
show a different magnitude of current at the two ends
of the coils. Most of my measurements have been at
the self-resonant frequency of a loading coil.

A 75m mobile bugcatcher coil is part of a standing wave
antenna with near-equal forward and reflected currents
flowing in opposite directions (phasors rotating in
opposite directions). As a result, the standing wave
current on the antenna has essentially the same phase
as the source current all up and down the antenna
*whether a loading coil exists or not*. Standing wave
current on a mobile antenna cannot be used to measure
phase shift or delay through a wire or a coil.

That standing wave current is of the form,
I = Io*cos(kx)*cos(wt), and cannot be used to determine
phase shift. So the major measurement mistakes were
not in the magnitudes, which are relatively easy to measure,
but in the phase-delay measurements, which were invalid.

The major conceptual mistake concerns standing waves,
not coils. It appears that some people didn't even realize
that they were dealing with a standing wave current on a
standing wave antenna.

The best estimates of actual delays through the coils seems
to come from the Dr. Corum IEEE paper where formulas
are given for the VF and Z0 of a coil. For the particular
coil being modeled in EZNEC, the VF formula yields
~0.02, or about 37 degrees for a 6" long coil on 4 MHz.
--
73, Cecil, W5DXP



Richard Clark April 21st 06 06:09 PM

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:39:11 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

It was Gene Fuller who said the coil varied between the "known"
limits of 1.0 and 0.02, not I.

You can't change the Vf by shortening a Vf = 0.02 coil, hmmm?
Remarkable shortening of your own theory there.

Perhaps you might want to try again using real numbers. Simply
because you play the pity card of forgetfulness (blaming your reader
usually as a bluff) we will reprise the question once again:

Asked: At one length, one coil exhibits
Vf = 0.02,
reduce the coil length, what length for the SAME coil would that be
to render
Vf = 0.2
for instance?

1. We are not changing frequency;
2. we are not changing diameter/lambda
(nor in fact changing diameter OR lambda);
3. we are not changing pitch/lambda
(nor in fact changing pitch OR lambda).

SAME coil means the one being offered, and being shortened - all other
provisos stand

Richard Clark April 21st 06 06:19 PM

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:30:24 -0400, Michael Coslo
wrote:

Back on topic now. Was there ever any correlation between the
measurements made by Cecil and Yuri with the information and tests
performed by Tom W8JI?


Hi Mike,

Well, you have a serious problem embodied in your statement. Neither
Cecil nor Yuri made any measurements. Perhaps Yuri observed some
shrink tube that had charred while he was working power, but actually
that is a stretch (not shrink) as he "observed" this only after the
fact. You certainly have read enough correspondence to observe for
yourself that Yuri cannot describe any system fully, so saying there
were correlations can only come from a heated imagination (more
current in than coming out). If there have been any experimental
details made under observed conditions, we have to credit Tom.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

K7ITM April 21st 06 06:40 PM

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My take on it is that Richard just loves yanking a chain that's
particularly easy to yank and will invariably respond in a way that
allows more yanking.

Everybody has long since agreed in principle; it's just that some
people remain buried so deeply in the forest that they can't see it for
all the trees. Or maybe it's that they are buried so deeply in the
pile that Richard was mentioning that they can't find the pony that's
been there all along to ride out on.

All this wave BS is just mathematical abstraction to 'splain what's
really going on anyway. If one is smart enough to actually get through
the math without making computational or conceptual errors, he's still
going to be lost if he doesn't relate it back to what it is that the
math is explaining. His loss; too bad.

Cheers,
Tom

(Hope I didn't let your secret out of the bag, Richard!)


Richard Clark April 21st 06 07:34 PM

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On 21 Apr 2006 10:40:47 -0700, "K7ITM" wrote:

My take on it is that Richard just loves yanking a chain that's
particularly easy to yank and will invariably respond in a way that
allows more yanking.


I can do that by simply asking for data.

(Hope I didn't let your secret out of the bag, Richard!)


Hi Tom,

The "secret," as you put it, is still as hidden to them as the WMD.

As you infer, it is rather all too easy to stir, but harder to
accomplish. Inferior talents prove that daily. None here see but
perhaps a tenth or less of what I've written; because as with good
technical writing, the best comedy is what is left after pruning the
excess from it.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Cecil Moore April 21st 06 08:12 PM

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Richard Clark wrote:
Neither Cecil nor Yuri made any measurements.


I made self-resonance measurements on loading coils
and standing wave current measurements on a 6m dipole.
W8JI said my measurements were in error. W7EL said
my measurements agreed with EZNEC.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Gene Fuller April 21st 06 08:52 PM

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Cecil Moore wrote:


Actually, it's just the other way around. How is one ever
going to understand what's really going on by superposing
waves to the point where half the information is lost?



Cecil,

That question explains everything. It demonstrates conclusively that you
no understanding of superposition.

73,
Gene
W4SZ

Gene Fuller April 21st 06 08:53 PM

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Gene Fuller wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:


Actually, it's just the other way around. How is one ever
going to understand what's really going on by superposing
waves to the point where half the information is lost?




Cecil,

That question explains everything. It demonstrates conclusively that you
no understanding of superposition.

73,
Gene
W4SZ


It also demonstrates that I can't proofread two sentences.

Richard Clark April 21st 06 08:54 PM

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:12:32 GMT, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Richard Clark wrote:
Neither Cecil nor Yuri made any measurements.


I made self-resonance measurements on loading coils
and standing wave current measurements on a 6m dipole.
W8JI said my measurements were in error. W7EL said
my measurements agreed with EZNEC.


My appologies, so you did.

Richard Clark April 21st 06 08:55 PM

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:53:40 GMT, Gene Fuller
wrote:

Gene Fuller wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:


Actually, it's just the other way around. How is one ever
going to understand what's really going on by superposing
waves to the point where half the information is lost?




Cecil,

That question explains everything. It demonstrates conclusively that you
no understanding of superposition.

73,
Gene
W4SZ


It also demonstrates that I can't proofread two sentences.


Perhaps half the information was lost by superpositioning them.

Cecil Moore April 22nd 06 12:08 AM

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Gene Fuller wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
Actually, it's just the other way around. How is one ever
going to understand what's really going on by superposing
waves to the point where half the information is lost?


That question explains everything. It demonstrates conclusively that you
no understanding of superposition.


Here's what one of the experts told me about superposition.

Gene Fuller, W4SZ wrote:
In a standing wave antenna problem, such as the one you describe,
there is no remaining phase information. Any specific phase
characteristics of the traveling waves died out when the startup
transients died out.

Phase is gone. Kaput. Vanished. Cannot be recovered. Never to be
seen again.

--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Cecil Moore April 22nd 06 12:12 AM

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Gene Fuller wrote:

Gene Fuller wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:
Actually, it's just the other way around. How is one ever
going to understand what's really going on by superposing
waves to the point where half the information is lost?


That question explains everything. It demonstrates conclusively that
you no understanding of superposition.

It also demonstrates that I can't proofread two sentences.


Take two PSK signals, superpose them through the same coax,
and see how much information is lost.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

K7ITM April 22nd 06 01:26 AM

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Well, Richard, we have it on good authority that what's really going on
is just mathematical abstraction to 'splain the wave BS. Or something
like that. Whaddaya think? Maybe current and charge are just a
pigment of our imaginations?

Cheers,
Tom


Richard Clark April 22nd 06 01:54 AM

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On 21 Apr 2006 17:26:03 -0700, "K7ITM" wrote:

Maybe current and charge are just a pigment of our imaginations?


Hi Tom,

I would say that it is not definitely black or white, it is a matter
of gray.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Mike Coslo April 22nd 06 09:47 PM

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Cecil Moore wrote:
"Michael Coslo" wrote:

Back on topic now. Was there ever any correlation between the
measurements made by Cecil and Yuri with the information and tests
performed by Tom W8JI? I had asked the question a couple times, but have
no answer yet. Maybe the message got lost.



Might have been when I was out of town. Except for a
single toroidal coil anomaly, all of the measurements
show a different magnitude of current at the two ends
of the coils. Most of my measurements have been at
the self-resonant frequency of a loading coil.


That isn't the design frequency though, is it?

A 75m mobile bugcatcher coil is part of a standing wave
antenna with near-equal forward and reflected currents
flowing in opposite directions (phasors rotating in
opposite directions). As a result, the standing wave
current on the antenna has essentially the same phase
as the source current all up and down the antenna
*whether a loading coil exists or not*. Standing wave
current on a mobile antenna cannot be used to measure
phase shift or delay through a wire or a coil.

That standing wave current is of the form,
I = Io*cos(kx)*cos(wt), and cannot be used to determine
phase shift. So the major measurement mistakes were
not in the magnitudes, which are relatively easy to measure,
but in the phase-delay measurements, which were invalid.

The major conceptual mistake concerns standing waves,
not coils. It appears that some people didn't even realize
that they were dealing with a standing wave current on a
standing wave antenna.

The best estimates of actual delays through the coils seems
to come from the Dr. Corum IEEE paper where formulas
are given for the VF and Z0 of a coil. For the particular
coil being modeled in EZNEC, the VF formula yields
~0.02, or about 37 degrees for a 6" long coil on 4 MHz.



I'm not sure I have this straight. I think I understand Tom's info, yet
this has me completely baffled.

Would the short answer be that you do not find any correlation?

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -

Cecil Moore April 22nd 06 10:44 PM

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Mike Coslo wrote:
Most of my measurements have been at
the self-resonant frequency of a loading coil.


That isn't the design frequency though, is it?


No, so I changed my approach. My present approach is to
take a self-resonant coil and use only part of the coil
on the *same* frequency, e.g. use half the coil as a loading
coil on the *same* frequency. That way, the velocity factor
should be roughly the same in either case.

I'm not sure I have this straight. I think I understand Tom's info,
yet this has me completely baffled.


I accept his magnitude measurements as probably accurate
and reasonable. His phase measurements were meaningless
since standing wave current phase doesn't change relative
to the source and therefore cannot be used to measure phase
shift along a wire or through a coil.

The standing wave current phase is the same from end to
end in a 1/2WL thin-wire dipole. It cannot be used to
determine the phase shift through a wire or a dipole. EZNEC
reports the same thing. This is key to understanding the
misconceptions involved and why the phase measurements were
meaningless.

Would the short answer be that you do not find any correlation?


*Nobody* has made a valid measurement of the delay through
a coil. There's nothing to correlate. One cannot use a signal
with unchanging phase to measure that delay.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

[email protected] April 23rd 06 02:10 AM

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Cecil Moore wrote:
Richard Clark wrote:
Neither Cecil nor Yuri made any measurements.


I made self-resonance measurements on loading coils
and standing wave current measurements on a 6m dipole.
W8JI said my measurements were in error. W7EL said
my measurements agreed with EZNEC.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


Cecil, Cecil, Cecil! Shame on you. When will you ever quit changing
what other people say?


Cecil Moore April 23rd 06 03:12 AM

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wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
I made self-resonance measurements on loading coils
and standing wave current measurements on a 6m dipole.
W8JI said my measurements were in error. W7EL said
my measurements agreed with EZNEC.


Cecil, Cecil, Cecil! Shame on you. When will you ever quit changing
what other people say?


Replying to my measurements, here are your words and W7EL's words:

W8JI wrote on 3-16-06:
Your measurements are probably wrong. ... After we resolve the
error in current, we can move on.


I repeat: "W8JI said my measurements were in error."

W7EL replied on 3-16-06:
The measurement looks good to me. The phase is exactly what EZNEC
predicts -- constant along the wire.


I repeat: "W7EL said my measurements agreed with EZNEC."

begin quote of entire posting from 3-16-06:
************************************************** ********************
wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:

Note that at the frequency where the dipole is 1/2WL and resonant,
it is 180 feet long and 180 degrees long so the number of feet of
wire is also the number of degrees of antenna. Here is my 1/2WL
dipole with current pickup coils installed at points 'x' and 'y' and
FP is the feedpoint,the impedance of which is 60 ohms.

------------------------------FP-------x---------------y-------

Total length is 180 feet. The distance between 'x' and 'y' is 45 feet.
Since feet = degrees in this case, the number of degrees between
'x' and 'y' is known to be 45 degrees from antenna theory. Those
45 degrees are what I am going to attempt to replace with a coil.

So I adjust the feedpoint current to one amp at a reference phase
angle of zero degrees and measure the current at 'x' and the current
at 'y'. The current at 'x' is 0.92 amp at 0 deg. The current at 'y' is
0.38 amp at 0 deg. Already I am not understanding my measurements.



Your measurements are probably wrong.

When did you measure that? After we resolve the error in current, we
can move on.



The measurement looks good to me. The phase is exactly what EZNEC predicts
-- constant along the wire. The ratio in magnitudes we'd expect depends on
the positions along the wire, not just the spacing.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL
************************************************** ************************

Gene Fuller April 24th 06 03:07 PM

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Cecil Moore wrote:
Gene Fuller wrote:

Gene Fuller wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:

Actually, it's just the other way around. How is one ever
going to understand what's really going on by superposing
waves to the point where half the information is lost?


That question explains everything. It demonstrates conclusively that
you no understanding of superposition.

It also demonstrates that I can't proofread two sentences.



Take two PSK signals, superpose them through the same coax,
and see how much information is lost.


Cecil,

Strike two!

More demonstration that you don't understand superposition.

73,
Gene
W4SZ

Cecil Moore April 24th 06 06:38 PM

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Gene Fuller wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
Take two PSK signals, superpose them through the same coax,
and see how much information is lost.


Strike two!
More demonstration that you don't understand superposition.


Actually, more demonstration that you shy away from technical
discussions in favor of inuendo. One wonders why? Please feel
free to enlighten me and others about how phase is conserved
during the superposition process.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Gene Fuller April 24th 06 08:09 PM

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Cecil Moore wrote:
Gene Fuller wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:

Take two PSK signals, superpose them through the same coax,
and see how much information is lost.



Strike two!
More demonstration that you don't understand superposition.



Actually, more demonstration that you shy away from technical
discussions in favor of inuendo. One wonders why? Please feel
free to enlighten me and others about how phase is conserved
during the superposition process.


Cecil,

There is nothing in the concept of superposition that will prevent you
from munging up something. I have no idea how you are planning to
"superpose" two signals through the same coax, and therefore I have no
idea what might happen to the phase.

Go back and review what superposition means. I have stated it here
before. It is a standard concept presented in many math, science, and
technology textbooks. In simplified form, when superposition applies it
says that the output from the combination of two inputs is the same as
the sum of the outputs from each input taken one at a time. This is
precisely what allows all of the various authors to say that one can
consider a standing wave to be equivalent to two opposite direction
traveling waves. This is purely a mathematical notion; superposition
does not impact the physical reality at all.

Superposition does not always apply. Only systems that are linear can be
expected to exhibit superposition properties.

If you choose to add a second input that was not there previously then
the combined output will be different than the output from the original
single input.

I didn't know I shied away from technical discussions. I thought you
were quoting me as one of your gurus when it was convenient.

73,
Gene
W4SZ

Cecil Moore April 24th 06 11:23 PM

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Gene Fuller wrote:
In simplified form, when superposition applies it
says that the output from the combination of two inputs is the same as
the sum of the outputs from each input taken one at a time.


The point is that phase is not preserved through the superposition
process and as you have noted before, the phase information completely
disappears from the superposed standing wave current.

This is
precisely what allows all of the various authors to say that one can
consider a standing wave to be equivalent to two opposite direction
traveling waves. This is purely a mathematical notion; superposition
does not impact the physical reality at all.


It certainly impacts the physical reality of W7EL's phase measurements.
If he measured the delay through the coil using the forward current,
he would obtain valid results. If he measured the delay through the
coil using the reflected current, he would obtain valid results. But
the superposition of those two currents results in a signal with
unchanging phase that cannot validly be used to determine the delay
through a wire or a coil or anything else.

I thought you
were quoting me as one of your gurus when it was convenient.


Yes, because you agree with me on most technical points. Your arguments
with me are invariably personal, not technical. I am not aware of a
single technical point upon which you and I disagree.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

Gene Fuller April 25th 06 12:34 AM

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Cecil Moore wrote:
Gene Fuller wrote:

I thought you were quoting me as one of your gurus when it was
convenient.



Yes, because you agree with me on most technical points. Your arguments
with me are invariably personal, not technical. I am not aware of a
single technical point upon which you and I disagree.


Cecil,

Be assured that I disagree with you on a great many technical points.

8-)

73,
Gene
W4SZ

Cecil Moore April 25th 06 04:14 AM

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Gene Fuller wrote:
Be assured that I disagree with you on a great many technical points.


Name one.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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