Richard Harrison wrote:
I wrote:
"Where? At the virtual short, not the open-circuit at the end of the
line."

If the virtual short were replaced with a real short, would anything
change? Not a thing except the line voltage distribution diagram would
lose its final 1/4-wavelength.

Don't you consider it a significant difference that no voltage, current,
or power would reach the load?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL