Owen Duffy wrote:
I see you are back to using S parameters to disguise the fact you are using
about Vf and Vr in trying to support your "power wave" explanation of what
happens on the transmission line.

Others use the term "power wave", Owen, but *I DO NOT*
so please stop accusing me of something of which I am
not guilty. I use the term "EM RF energy wave" for
the traveling waves under discussion.

When anyone can prove that RF energy waves don't exist
or are not associated with EM energy or don't move at
the speed of light, I will retire from the argument.
Good luck on that one.

S parameters are ratios of Vf and Vr.

Exactly! No disguise intended - it's just additional
support from the well respected field of S-parameter
analysis for the distributed network wave reflection
model. The only difference is that the S-parameter
Vf and Vr values are normalized to Z0 so when they
are squared they indeed do yield watts.

Your tone seems to reject the S-Parameter analysis
as a valid model of reality. Any model that has to
resort to rejecting the S-Parameter analysis as well
as the distributed network wave reflection model is
certainly suspect. Did you ever see the movie, "One
Bridge Too Far"? This "reflected wave energy doesn't
exist" argument reminds me of that movie.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com