Keith Dysart wrote:
You have also claimed that for an amplifier which can
be modelled as a Thevenin or Norton equivalent circuit,
the output impedance can not be used to derive the
reflection coefficient.

And have proved it with concepts that existed before
I was born. I cannot take credit for that.

If an amplifier is delivering zero net power, the
calculated rho = SQRT(Pref/Pfor) = plus or minus 1.0
The value of the "output impedance" is irrelevant.
Because of superposition, the reflected energy never
encounters the "output impedance".

You have claimed that the only way to prevent a
re-reflection at a generator is to use a circulator;
a 10 cent resistor will never do.

Roy has said essentially the same thing in so many
words. You see, your concepts lead to a direct
violation of the conservation of energy principle
for which I can take no credit.

You have claimed that energy can cross a point on
the line where V or I is always 0.

Since it is impossible for photons to reflect while
traveling in a homogeneous medium, that one is a
no-brainer. I cannot take credit for anything I
learned from Quantum Electrodynamics.

You have claimed that there is great importance
to the terms "Traveling-Wave Current" and
"Standing-Wave Current" (the title of this thread).

Again, I didn't invent standing wave current and
traveling wave current. I am just reporting what
I have learned from people who knew the difference
before I was born. If one knows much of anything about
mathematics, one can look at the equation for standing
wave current and the equation for traveling wave current
and see the considerable differences. That you cannot
just proves that you don't know much of anything about
mathematics.

Standing wave current = Io*cos(kx)*cos(wt)

Traveling wave current = Io*cos(kx+wt)

I feel sorry for any "technical" person who cannot see
the difference. For traveling waves, the position and
phase are interlocked. For standing waves, the position
and phase are divorced. Those differences are obvious
and are plotted at.

http://www.w5dxp.com/travstnd.gif
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com