Cecil Moore wrote:

Jim Kelley wrote:


Cecil Moore wrote:

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.


You missed the implication which was: Does any RF energy
exit the source only to re-enter the source again later
and wind up being dissipated as heat?

That implication did escape notice. Clearly Richard was talking about
something else.

But it's an interesting question. It would be nice to see some
objective data.

73, ac6xg