K7ITM wrote:
Just as we can make a short antenna resonant by adding a loading coil,
and the loading coil may be placed anywhere along the antenna if an
appropriate coil is chosen, we can make a long antenna resonant by
inserting a series capacitance along the antenna wire.

When that physically long but electrically shortened to resonance
antenna is excited and a standing wave pattern develops, what is the
phase shift of the current through the loading capacitor? Is the
standing wave current on the two sides of the capacitor different, in a
manner similar to how it's different in a loading coil?

If not, why not?

Cheers,
Tom


Is it not true that any two conductors can be modeled as either a
transmission line or a capacitor? At this level, there appears to be
analytic symmetry with a series loading coil.

Chuck