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Re: Hawksford

This is tough, because I don't have it in any good form, myself. That is why I relied on John Atkinson of 'Stereophile' to get Hawksford's '95 paper in their archives. He hasn't done it as yet.
This is my take on what Hawksford is trying to point out:
Most of the signal travels at nearly the speed of light to the other end of the wire. This we all agree on.
BUT, because wire has FINITE resistance, the magnetic and electrostatic portions of the the wave are not EXACTLY orthogonal (or 90 degrees apart). This causes a (loss wave) that is radial to the wire, or goes across it. This wave is very slow, BECAUSE the wire is still very, very conductive, compared to the insulator where most of the signal flows. In this process, especially when skin effect becomes important, the voltage/current phase shift of the loss wave becomes important. So when you abruptly turn OFF a sine wave, the current continues to flow for a short time. This is NOT inductance, DA, or any magnetic properties of the material, but is related to the currents that cause 'skin effect'. Now I could be wrong in some details, but this is the best of what I understand, so far. For the record, Slope, I hope that you can get more info on this, and I will give you every reasonable info that I can. Please remember, it is NOT my work, or my specialty that we are discussing. I have to ask questions as well.

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