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RE: [TCML] Wireless Transmission Theory



Terry Fritz had posted a very detailed and readable point-by-point critique of the Corums paper.  That post is archived at http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/1999/October/msg00428.html

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

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> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > There were several errors in Corum's papers.
>
>
> That's not too helpful, since I bet I can find several errors in *any*
> research paper.  I'd need to know which Corum papers only had misspellings
> or bad punctuation.  Or which of their papers were entirely misguided and
> wrong.
>
> Avoid the logic fallacy of "poisoning the well," or sowing distrust but
> without saying why distrust is warrented.
>
> Their papers about slow-wave waveguides and 1/4-wave waveguide stubs
> should be fairly easy to verify with a pulse generator and a couple feet
> of wire-wrapped pipe.  But the waveguide concept itself is certainly
> correct, since single-wire G-lines are real.  And since TC secondaries do
> actually have multiple higher modes, just as we'd expect if the coils
> behaved as waveguides having end reflections.
>
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