There's a good fight brewing in QEX magazine land. Eric, K8LV, wrote a
pretty good article on directional wattmeters. But he spent a lot of
space asserting that the notion of forward and reflected power in a
transmission line is merely for intuitive convenience, isn't real, and
should be abandoned in favor of unidirectional power flow and lumped
analysis at a single point.

Whoo Hoo. The letters will be fun. Especially if Eric attempts to
extend his assertion to a case not-as-special, such as not-steady-state
or a point in 3D space.

Too bad it wasn't here. Bet we'd get a couple dozen posts before the
weekend's out. Anyone want to take Eric's side?


73,
Glenn AC7ZN