Cecil Moore wrote:

Jim Kelley wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:
Absolutely no chance that you are simply wrong?

Only if Born and Wolfe are wrong. Since people use these formulas every
day, proving them wrong might be quite a challenge. I should think the
fact that their formula produces the correct answer to your problem
should lend Born and Wolfe at least some credence.

Absolutely no chance that there is a small detail that you do not
understand and are therefore misinterpreting something?

In this instance: It's no greater than, and probably less than the
chance that you do not understand and are therefore misinterpreting
something.

Here's an idea, Cecil. Instead of simply trying to discredit your
correspondent, why don't actually find something wrong with the
equations?

s'11 = rho but s11 doesn't equal rho unless the load-rho equals zero.

Hence the utiltity of the Born and Wolfe equations.

73, Jim AC6XG