Cecil Moore wrote:
Jim Kelley wrote:

According to the text, since the two complex functions of t in
exponential form can be graphically represented as directed lines, and
since each is the conjugate of the other, they are called
counter-rotating phasors.


Is it talking about forward and reflected currents?

It's talking about electromagnetic wave functions, so it applies to
actual electromagnetic waves.

If the forward and reflected currents are of equal
magnitudes, which direction does the standing-wave
current phasor rotate?

A clue might have been in one of the parts you deleted said that
phasors add just like vectors. A standing 'wave' is not as much a
wave as it is an interference pattern. It is an amplitude as a
function of position, not as a function of time. The phasor for a
standing wave would then rotate as a function of position; the
direction of rotation would depend on the direction you're moving
along the transmission line.

73, Jim AC6XG