Richard Clark wrote:

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:49:36 -0600, Cecil Moore
wrote:

"All of the photon energy present in these (canceled) waves
must somehow be recovered or redistributed in a new direction, ..."

Was and has been Orthogonal to the direction of propagation - nothing
has changed.

There's only one other direction in a transmission line and that's
back toward the load.

This does not follow from the other.

Moreover, the point being missed by the original correspondent (one
which is obvious from this and other descriptions of the phenomena), is
that no _energy_ is transferred in the direction of totally destructive
interfering waves - a point which I have made repeatedly on this
newsgroup, and which he has steadfastly refused to accept. The
observation that the energy in question must go elsewhere remains obvious.

73, Jim AC6XG

Jim Kelley wrote:
Moreover, the point being missed by the original correspondent (one
which is obvious from this and other descriptions of the phenomena), is
that no _energy_ is transferred in the direction of totally destructive
interfering waves - a point which I have made repeatedly on this
newsgroup, and which he has steadfastly refused to accept.

You know that's a false statement, one of many you have made about
my postings.

Of course, no energy is transferred past the match point in the
direction of totally destructive interfering waves. DUUUHHHHHH,
THAT'S WHY THE REFLECTED POWER METER READS ZERO ON THE SOURCE
SIDE OF THE MATCH POINT, DUUUHHHHHH. And that's why the reflected
energy traveling toward the source on the load side of the match
point gets redistributed in the only other available direction,
i.e. re-reflected back toward the load.

What I said was: For two reflected waves to cancel, they must
first exist even if for only an infinitesimally small amount of
time. Since you disagree with that, it means the reflected waves
never existed. And if, as you say, they never existed, how could
they possibly cancel? You seem to have invented a new phenomena -
two waves canceling without the waves ever existing.
--
73, Cecil, W5DXP