Gene Fuller wrote:

Tom, Every few months I suffer a complete breakdown in common sense, and I
engage with Cecil.

You may recall the record-setting threads on Steve Best vs. Walt
Maxwell.

I hope you remember that I didn't agree with either side. I stated that
they were two inches apart and neither one of them would budge one inch.
Dr. Best denied there was any such thing as interference at a match point.
At the time, Walt didn't understand the pseudo S-parameter analysis that
Dr. Best was using.

Then there was the endless debate on optical reflections, built
around Cecil's gross misinterpretation of the Melles-Griot Optics Guide.

The "lost" reflected power joins the forward wave? That's what they say.
There's no way for reflected power to join the forward wave without changing
direction. Seems I am up against the Spanish Inquisition. Is "Fuller" Spanish? :-)

You are right; it is time to go back to my cave for a while.

I am always quick to admit an error, like the 20dB vs 40dB error I made
yesterday. Nobody has offered one iota of technical proof that I am wrong.
I didn't realize that the science of physics depends on a newsgroup democracy.

I find it amazing that the only argument you guys can come up with is
an ad hominem attack. That's usually the last resort of someone who has
lost the argument. If I am so technically incorrect, is one iota of
technical proof too much to ask? It is, of course, if this is a good-
old-boys EM religion discussion rather than a technical discussion.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


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