the REAL answer is that the 'standing' wave is a creation of experimenters
100 years ago who didn't have the impedance, current, and voltage
measurement tools we have today, and didn't know of or understand
superposition. 'standing' waves are nothing but a result of superposition
of the forward and reflected waves, they have no physical significance
beyond that. it is worthless to talk about power or energy in them since
they can always be broken down into the component waves which make more
sense to work with.

Dave


Whoa!
No physical significance?
Like there is no frying the Hustler loading coil from the bottom up (due to
standing wave current) or corona flames from the tip (due to high SW
voltage) when applying a bit of "worthless" power?

Yuri