Roy Lewallen wrote:
No other information is required.

No other information is required if, as you assert, you
don't care where the power goes. You said: "I personally
don't have a compulsion to understand where this power
'goes'." That's perfectly acceptable, but don't turn
around and present yourself as an expert on "where the
power goes". Please choose either not to care or to engage
in a technical discussion of where the power goes. It
is not fair play for you to try to have it both ways.

If it is applied properly, the power-interference equation
tells us exactly where the power goes so your following
statement is false: "While the nature of the voltage and
current waves when encountering an impedance discontinuity
is well understood, we're lacking a model of what happens
to this 'reverse power' we've calculated."

We are NOT lacking a model of what happens to the "reverse
power". You have just chosen not to understand the model
and are trying to use your guru status to belittle and
discredit anyone attempting to use that model. Are you
afraid it might turn out to be valid?
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com