"Ian White wrote -
Stop fooling and confusing yourselves. The solution to everybody's
problems is simple - just change the name of the thing to TLI.
(Transmitter Loading Indicator).

Or - recalling that what the meter actually measures is the
reflection
coefficient - why not go back to the old name of "Reflectometer"?

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It does NOT read the reflection coefficient. It reads only half of
it. At least half of the information lies in the angle of the RC -
which is disregarded, ignored, by the so-called meter.

The magnitude of the RC without its angle is just another worthless
number. It can't be used for anything except to calculate a fictional
SWR.
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Reg, G4FGQ