Wes Stewart wrote:
"Go ahead Tom, you have the honor. "

It's not worth the effort, Wes. He wasn't willing (or perhaps he was
just unable) to do the math last year, and I suppose he isn't this year
either. He was willing to call me a liar instead of getting ahold of
Besser himself and verifying that Besser long ago corrected that typo
about using the complex conjugate in the formula for reflection
coefficient.

Anyone willing to start with the very basic idea that forward and
reverse waves on uniform TEM lines are independent and the ratio of
voltage to current in each of them is equal to the line impedance, plus
a few other elementary ideas like the sum of currents into a node is
zero can, with a bit of algebraic facility, verify the derivation of
reflection coefficient expressed in terms of line and load impedance.
Or, they can look in the archives (via Google, etc.) to see it
presented in past threads here.

Cheers,
Tom