And the mice are off.

Is it just my perception, or is it the fate of all threads in this
newsgroup to end up being Cecil arguing about power waves?

Cecil, have you considered starting your own newsgroup, say
alt.cecils.power.waves?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

W5DXP wrote:
Ian White, G3SEK wrote:

"Where does the reflected power go?" is even worse because it contains
at least two built-in misconceptions: that reflected power waves
exist, and that they have to "go" somewhere.


Ian, it can be proven that reflected power waves exist. Ramo & Whinnery
say they exist. Standing waves in a single source, single feedline,
single load system cannot exist without reflected waves. The HP Application
Note AN 95-1 defines the power in reflected waves. "|a2|^2 = Power
reflected
from the load." Saying something is a misconception is only an opinion
that differs from a lot of expert opinions. . .