Y'all gonna get a real lecture from Tom on this one Doug!
The real answer is that the reflected power is retransmitted on the next
cycle and on and on every microsecond or whatever.
The only power loss is the reflected power loss in the transmission line.
This can be from negligible to high depending upon the frequency vs
matched loss of the line.
Toms answer about subtracting the foreward from the reflected power to
obtain the power absorbed by the load is accurate.
As Yogi Berra might have said: "Its watt gose out watt counts"
73.....Carl KM1H
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