"Gary Schafer" wrote in message
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Easiest way to visualize it is with open wire line which has very low
loss. Feeding a non resonant antenna the SWR can be very high on the
line. You can have 50% reflected power on the line. With 100 watts
forward you would then have 50 watts reflected but just about all of
the 100 watts will reach the antenna and be radiated. The only loss
will be the very small loss in the line. (typically a few tenths of a
db loss)

But if all energy is radiated by the antenna, how on earth can you have any
reflected power???? I thought the essential part here is that reflected
energy is the energy that os NOT radiated.

Meindert