> W8JI is correct in that the current into a perfect inductor must equal the
> current out of it.
Perfectly true.
> It's a piece of coiled wire so where else can the current go?
Wait a minute, a piece of coiled wire is not a perfect inductor!
It's a completely different beast: the perfect inductor has zero length,
but a piece of coiled wire almost always has a substantial length
(the wire length, not the coil length), which causes all kinds of
transmission-line effects, including differing currents at coil ends.
> Tom's assumption here is a 'perfect' inductor with no distributed capacitance.
True, the 'perfect' inductor has no distributed capacitance, but, again,
perfect inductors are not what we have on our antennas.
73,
Sinisa YT1NT, VE3EA
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