Jim Kelley wrote:
Nothing the IEEE says counters the fact that the mathematical product of
two physical quantities does not and can not physically propagate
through a transmission line.

Once again you make a statement with which no one has disagreed.
Has anybody in the world said otherwise? I certainly have not,
so your statement appears to be just another one of your straw
men. Energy flowing past a point is defined as *power* at that
fixed point even if it is reflected energy! The fact that you are
forced to misrepresent what I have said speaks volumes.

But there's no dispute about what happens in the beginning or at the
end. It's entirely about what you claim is happening in the steady state.

Exactly what is my claim about what is happening in the steady-
state? In case you misunderstood, here it is again.

What I have said is happening during steady-state is that the
source has supplied exactly the amount of energy contained in
the measured forward wave and the measured reflected wave. That
energy has been delivered to the system by the source but has
not yet reached the load. Occam's razor says that exact amount
of energy is most likely contained in the forward and reflected
waves, not magically somewhere else, e.g. sloshing around between
standing wave nodes as W7EL asserts.

I say the ExH watts exist in the forward wave and the reflected
wave just as the textbooks assert. You seem to be saying that it
isn't there. If it isn't there, where did it go? Conservation of
energy strikes again.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp