Cecil Moore wrote:
Tom Donaly wrote:

Here's a more general equation for you Cecil:
(A1-A2)*Cos(wt-kx) + 2*A2*Cos(kx+d/2)*Cos(wt+d/2).


Yes, it is more general, Tom, but since the subject is standing
waves and not traveling waves, it is overly general. Why would
you post an equation containing a traveling wave term when the
subject is the equation for standing waves?

This is the total equation for the condition where power is
being delivered to a load in the presence of standing waves.
The first term makes it to the load. The second term doesn't.

The first term is a traveling wave and indeed does contain
phase information. There's no argument about whether a
traveling wave contains phase information.

The argument is whether the second term, the standing wave
term, contains phase information. Gene Fuller says it doesn't,
Eugene Hecht says it doesn't, and I'm inclined to agree.

Cecil, I won't try to educate you because it's a waste of time, but
for everyone else, consider that in an antenna, there is
energy going into, and being radiated out of, the antenna in the
form of an electromagnetic wave. Since Cecil says standing waves
can't transfer energy from one place to another (he didn't always
say this) that means that the only way energy can be radiated is
through the traveling wave component of the electromagnetic wave.
You would think that this would be important to him in his search
for a dumbed down theory of reflection mechanics, but evidently
he is more interested in his arguing point concerning Tom R. and
Roy measuring current in a standing wave environment than he is in
reaching an understanding of what he's talking about. No wonder
no one's communicating with him.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH