Keith Dysart wrote:
Regardless, if you use the snippet above to support
your claim, you have effectively modified your claim.

False. My claim is what it has always been which is:
An amateur radio antenna system obeys the conservation
of energy principle and abides by the principles of
superposition (including interference) and the wave
reflection model. Everything I have claimed falls out
from those principles.

Your claims, however, are in direct violation of the
principles of superposition and of the wave reflection
model, e.g. waves smart enough to decide to be reflected
when the physical reflection coefficient is 0.0. Your
claims even violate the principles of AC circuit theory,
e.g. a reactance doesn't store energy and deliver it back
to the system at a later time in the same cycle.

You are now saying that the reflected energy is
dissipated in the source resistor only at particular
times, such as when the source voltage is 0, and that
you are not interested in what happens during the rest
of the cycle.

You haven't read my article yet, have you? Here's a quote:
"For this *special case*, it is obvious that the reflected energy
from the load is flowing through the source resistor, RS, and
is being dissipated there. But remember, we chose a special
case (resistive RL and 1/8 wavelength feedline) in order to
make that statement true and it is *usually not true* in the
general case."

If there is one case where your assertion is wrong, then
your assertion is false. I found that special case when
the source voltage is zero that makes your assertions
false.

For example, if you were to do the same analysis,
except do it for t such that wt equals 100 degrees,
instead of 90, you would find that you need more terms
than just Pr.g to make the energy flows balance.

Yes, you have realized that destructive and constructive
interference energy must be accounted for to balance the
energy equations. I have been telling you that for weeks.

I repeat: The *only time* that reflected energy is 100%
dissipated in the source resistor is when the two component
voltages satisfy the condition: (V1^2 + V2^2) = (V1 + V2)^2.
None of your examples have satisfied that necessary condition.
All it takes is one case to prove the following assertion false:

"Reflected energy is *always* re-reflected from the
source and redistributed back toward the load."

You appear to think that if you can find many cases where
an assertion is true, then you can simply ignore the cases
where it is not true. I have presented some special cases
where it is not true. It may be true for 99.9% of cases,
but that nagging 0.1% makes the statement false overall.

Equally false is the assertion: "Reflected energy is
always dissipated in the source resistor." The amount
of reflected energy dissipated in the source resistor
can vary from 0% to 100% depending upon network
conditions. That statement has been in my article from
the beginning.

So are you now agreeing that it is not the energy
in the reflected wave that accounts for the
difference in the heating of the source resistor
but, rather, the energy stored and returned from
the line, i.e. Pg(t)?

I have already presented a case where there is *zero*
power dissipated in the source resistor in the presence
of reflected energy so your statement is obviously just
false innuendo, something I have come to expect from
you when you lose an argument.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com