Cecil Moore wrote:

Richard Harrison wrote:

Regardless of reflections and re-reflections, all the energy sourced
into a transmission line ends up in the load if it isn`t lost in
transmission by radiation or conversion into heat. There`s no place else
for it to go.


Hi Richard, does that statement assume that all energy
dissipated as heat in the source was never sourced?

It seems to. Since he wrote "all the energy sourced
into a transmission line", it's doubtful that he was implying that any
heat energy was sourced into the transmission line. That would be silly
(RF transmission line is opaque in the infrared). He probably also
assumed that the energy dissipated by the front panel lights wasn't
sourced into the transmission line either. You forgot to ask about
that. ;-)

73, ac6xg