Keith Dysart wrote:
Are you sure there are different rules for ham radio sources
than for all the other ones? Something different about them?
Something that makes them not amenable to the techniques used
for others?

You are using the rules of superposition in your examples.
I don't know if the rules of superposition apply to those
other sources but I do know that a ham transmitter, like
my IC-706, is not linear enough to abide by the rules of
superposition. How is superposition supposed to handle
foldback?

Ham transmitters cannot willy-nilly be shorted and opened
in order to ascertain their linear model characteristics.

A signal generator equipped with a circulator load solves
all the experimental problems but doesn't act like a ham
transmitter.

Seriously though, it does all work. The problems are solvable.

If that is true, why hasn't anyone ever solved them,
published the results, and ended the arguments? The
"solutions" produce different results depending upon
whose brain is being used. Nobody has ever *solved*
the problem and therefore the argument still continues
to rage.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com