"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Henry Kolesnik wrote:
You say my question has been answered but I haven't seen the answer, too
old, too stupid, whatever but I still would like to understand. So,
would
you be kind enough to give me a better understanding of the "mechanism"
in
the transmitter final that can dissipate and transform yet it can't
dissipate a reflection because there's some kind of one way device that
acts
like a checkvalve or diode that reflects.

By definition, reflected energy dissipated in the source was never
generated in the first place.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


That's not a very good definition.
Would you say that a rock, thrown vertically, never was thrown just because
it returned to hit you on the head?

Ed
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