"Owen Duffy" wrote:
But, the mechanism is not that the reflected wave *necessarily*
travels all the way back to the PA anode by virtue of some kind of
momentumne / feedpoint junction are fully satisfied with no
reflected wave on the feedline. (I used the term resolve, Cecil must
call it destructive interference.) The reflected wave on the dipole
does not have a momentum that *must* carry it to the PA anode to be
absorbed there.
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However, any amount of reflected power from the termination at the far end
of a transmission line has a greater chance of damaging tx PA components,
and of stress/failure to the transmission line itself than if the reflected
power from the antenna/load was zero, regardless of the electrical length of
said transmission line.

This reality of physics is not subject to debate, don't you agree?

RF