Reg,

Instead of yet another posting on the topic beyond the 20 or so you've
already blessed us with proposing the new TLA (three letter acronym) of
TLI, why don't you start by contacting Agilent (formerly HP), Narda,
Anritsu, and the other manufacturers of precision terminators? Surely
those professionals will see the impeccable logic of your proposal, and
will immediately cease publishing a maximum SWR specification for their
terminators. Then the manufacturers of RF transistors, directional
couplers, attenuators, and other RF devices, which now have input SWR
specifications, will follow. Of course, they can't call the former SWR
the TLI, since it's not indicating anything, and there's not necessarily
a transmitter involved. And the whole object here is to be consistent
and rational, after all. So how about "RER" for "Reg Edwards Ratio", as
in "guaranteed maximum RER = 1.1"? No one should confuse that with
anything else.

Wouldn't this be a wonderful world (AWW) if only we were always strictly
logical (ASL)?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL