Donald, to an outsider looking in that is what the argument appears to be. I skipped over pages of mindless banter that I really have no interest in reading. I personally think there is another mechanism at play, but that doesn't mean I'm not open to other ideas. That is why that model I created exists, even if I haven't shown it to the public yet, I was testing an idea other than my own. To me an advance in any direction is an advance, even if it completely disproves what I think.
Speaking of what I think, I have my thoughts on what is happening, but as long as this mindless banter continues I really don't wish to jump in the middle of everything. Its like political parties here in the US, its an us vs them attitude, the more polarizes and heated the discussion gets, the more everyone looses.
I think I remember reading something about that experiment you mention, or at least something about what W8JI said. It doesn't sound like what I was thinking of though, although your reports would appear to be evidence supporting common mode currents.
Eddie, perhaps you think this is being over thought. It was an idea I had to test something and see what results we could expect. If the antenna is working the way Donald and Bob thinks it works I had no other real way to see if I could duplicate it with NEC2, and just happened to get a certain amount of gain that matches up with claims that have been around for what, more than a decade now? Based on what I know about modeling in NEC2, not that I claim to know much, the theory behind it appears to be sound. Perhaps I am in error, perhaps not. In time I will learn more and perhaps understand more. Until then I am running with what I know.
If only I had access to a Finite Difference Time Domain software rather than being limited to Method of Moments...
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