Keith Dysart wrote:
What drove me to look at alternate explanations for these kinds of
examples
was that the 'reverse power' explanation fails miserably when the
power
gets back to the generator.

The reverse energy wave follows the principles of
conservation of energy and superposition. That we
have no clue what the generator looks like to the
reflected energy wave is not a good reason to
abandon those principles. In fact, allowing
destructive interference to be accompanied by
an energy reflection solves all the problems.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com