The rig has no way of detecting any alleged "reflected power". It can't
tell the difference between a feedline with a lot of "reflected power",
a feedline with no "reflected power", and a plain resistor. It behaves
exactly the same in all cases, provided only that the impedance that
each provides to it is the same.

Anyone not convinced of this should put a couple or more dummy loads in
series or parallel, make up a few lengths of transmission line of
various impedances, and see for himself.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

james wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:42:49 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:


Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If the reflected current arrives out
of phase with the forward current, then the final dissipation can
actually be *reduced* by the mismatch.

*****

Power is power. Phase is not a problem. Take the mafnitude of the
transmitted power and teh magnitude of the reflected power. The
results are phaseless. The magnitudes add linearly.

QED

james