Roy Lewallen wrote:
I've completely accounted for the power and energy leaving the voltage
source, being dissipated in the resistor, and entering the line, at all
times from startup to steady state, and done it quantitatively with
numerical results. And I did this without any mention of propagating
waves of power or energy.

Yes, you did deliberately avoid mentioning the energy in
the forward and reflected waves in the stub. So what? The
energy supplied to the stub is in the form of EM wave
energy. As long as it is not transformed into a different
type of energy, it will remain EM energy whether you choose
to ignore it or not. Your failure to mention ExH energy/sec
doesn't mean it ceases to exist. The EM wave energy is still
there moving at the speed of light in the medium. It is exactly
equal to the energy necessary to support the forward and
reflected power.

Roy, if you think that your failure to mention reality changes
reality, I feel really sorry for you but it is not unusual for
gurus to suffer from delusions of grandeur.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com