Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:04:12 -0600, brian whatcott
wrote:

If a coax gets a 50 ohm lossy
resistance, then it soaks up all the power with no reflection.

That's where I'm coming from...

And so am I. A long length of lossy cable will show no reflected
power which translates to an SWR of 1:1.


Then we are agreed that a SWR reading can be misleading in this
circumstance.

Brian W