"Jim Kelley" wrote in message
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Tarmo's simulation results seem to conflict with Richard's
interpretation of Chipman. Lately you've been leaning toward Richard's
point of view. How does the story end? ;-)

73, Jim AC6XG

Jim,
It probably can't be proven, unless somebody comes up with an alternative
definition for SWR. If you look at my simulator equations of a few listings
back, I proved that what my model (and the Bird wattmeter) call SWR is
RL/Z0. So, unless I screwed up, running any number of simulations is not
going to disprove that.

If you look at textbook examples where they transmit pulses, The source
impedance determines what V+ is, and whether there is a second reflection
from the source, but NOT what the reflection at the load end is. Lets delve
on this for a second. It seems fair to say that if the source impedance
determines V+, clearly it has an effect on V-. But, that does not mean it
has anything to do with rho.

Tam/WB2TT