Dave wrote:
i'm not agreeing with how you assume the 50 ohm impedance of the meter out
of the circuit.

I don't think you understand what I was saying. It takes a
certain length of feedline to establish a Z0 environment
for the forward and reverse traveling TEM waves, i.e. to
force Vfor/Ifor = Vref/Iref = Z0.

and i am not agreeing that there should be reflected power
measured by the meter in the case of the 50 ohm load on the end of a 1/2
wave 75 ohm line.

I never said it "should" measure that reflected power. What I
said is if it doesn't measure the reflected power that exists,
it is not giving a valid measurement of reflected power. A properly
calibrated meter will indeed measure the reflected power that exists.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp