Richard Fry wrote:

"Roy Lewallen" wrote
The problem is that the idea of "reflected energy" turning the plates hot
is so easy to understand, that people aren't willing to abandon it simply
because it isn't true.
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But reflected energy/power does exist.

For an easy example, such reflections are evident in the picture seen on
an analog TV receiver when the match between the transmit antenna and the
transmission connected to it is bad enough.

In analog TV transmit systems with a typical 500+ foot length transmission
line from the tx to the antenna, a 5% reflection from a far-end mismatch
can be quite visible, showing as a "ghost" image that is offset from the
main image as related to the round-trip propagation time of the
transmission line.

RF

Poppycock, TV ghosting is caused by multipath length differences. Calculate
the position ratio and the horizontal scan frequency (15750 Hz is close
enough). That gives you the path length difference; it is generally on the
order of miles (= major terrain features).

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JosephKK
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