On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:11:36 -0500, W5DXP
wrote:

Dilon Earl wrote:
If you have a 100 watt transmitter, the watt meter shows 3 watts
reflected. I deliver 103 watts to the antenna. I now know where the
reflected power go's. But where did it come from? If I could find a
way to have 100 watts reflected I could put 200 watts to the antenna
from a 100 watt transmitter.

The key word is "to", not "accepted by". You can indeed get 200 watts
to (incident upon) the antenna with a 100 watt transmitter. Trouble
is, the antenna only accepts half of that power.


Where does the other 100 watts go?

For some reason I need a circulator on my SB-401.

Only if you allow reflected energy to reach your SB-401.

How can I stop it from reaching my SB-401?

Then all ham transmitters should have a circulator?