Gene Fuller wrote:
However, there is not one
bit of additional physical information in the traveling waves that is
not in the standing wave.

I agree with you but W8JI and W7EL have rejected the concept that
there is any phase information in the standing wave current magnitude.
They have rejected any use of the arc-cosine function in calculating
that phase. The following graphs show the difference in the standing
wave current and the traveling wave current.

http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp/travstnd.GIF

The standing wave current phase contains zero phase information
as you have stated. As you say, all the standing wave current
phase information is contained in the magnitude but the arc-cosine
function for obtaining that phase information has been rejected by
the experts. For the traveling wave, there is phase information
contained in the phase, none in the magnitude.

Every time you make a technical assertion, you support my argument.
Seems your argument is really with the side that rejects the arc-
cosine function for obtaining phase information.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp