Owen Duffy wrote:
Cecil, it appears your motive is to create confusion to divert attention
from the cases that are inconsistent with the assertion that "VSWR causes
reflected power that is dissipated in the source".

Appearances can be deceiving. My motive is to uncover facts
and I agree with virtually everything you have said.

My personal opinion is that from 0% to 100% of reflected
power can be dissipated in the source depending upon the
relative phase of the incident reflected wave and the
configuration of the source. It can be argued that if the
source sees an infinite or zero impedance, then all of the
source power is reflected at the source output. This, of
course, would be a same-cycle reflection, something that
also occurs at the mismatched load.

By convention, any power same-cycle reflected at the source
output was never generated to start with - one of the original
copouts.

Since the great majority of amateur transmitters are
looking into a Z0-match resulting in total destructive
interference in the direction of the source, IMO, this
subject is pretty much moot. That's why I poke fun at it.

All one has to do to calculate the reflected power
dissipated in the source is to understand the constructive
and destructive interference occurring at the source
output terminal. This is easier said than done.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com