Jim Kelley wrote:
How about we just get back to the question. Energy in your 1 sec.
transmission line, only with no load on the circulator (and no
autotuner). How much? Explain. Try it!

I honestly don't know what happens when the third port
of the circulator is unterminated but it is irrelevant
because the steady-state forward and reflected powers
would not be the same. I concede to you the fact that
one can always make an example too complicated to
analyze presumably for the purpose of diverting the
issue. But why would you want to divert the issue?

The real question is: Do two identical feedlines with
identical signal characteristics contain the same
amount of energy as in the following two examples.
Again SGCL is a Signal Generator with a Circulator and
Load resistor. Z0 is 50 ohms and the load is 291.42 ohms.

200W SGCL-----one second long lossless feedline---load
200W-- --100W
lossless
100W---tuner--one second long lossless feedline---load
200W-- --100W

It is easy to prove that the first example contains 300
joules in the feedline after two seconds.

It is easy to specify that the conditions in the feedline
in the two examples are identical during steady-state.

Are you asserting that two identical feedlines with identical
conditions contain a different number of joules?

I have another example in another posting.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp