>A simple DC example grossly clarifies thre issue: connect a 12V battery to the
>>series of a 50-ohm load and another 12V battery. How much current flows
>>through
>>the load? Naught (assuming the correct polarity). So no power is dissipated in
>>it.
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> Turn the second battery over. Double the power is dissipated in it.
>
> Phase, you can't live with it, you can't live without it.
>
> 73's
> Richard Clark, KB7QHC
Of course. Mine was just a DC example to illustrate things in a simple manner.
When the transmitter is properly tuned, the phase relationship is such that the reflected wave does not get dissipated at all into the 50 ohm output of the transmitter, and is then reflected back to the antenna
Tony I0JX