30 July 2016

Also sent by airmail letter.

Dear Professor Moghaddam, Editor, IEEE Antennbas and Propagation Magazine,

I have a suggestion for a way out of this mess .

I suggest we forget about the original article "Catt's Anomaly",

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x54c.pdf  forget about my reply "Conflation"

http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x59b1.htm

and forget the P&S comment on "Conflation". 

Instead you invite me to write an article to be edited only by you, not going through the IEEE "Steeplechase", but direct from me to you by email attachment.

The article will outline "The Catt Question", "The Second Catt Question" and "The Third Catt Question".

That would constitute an article of historic significance. Neither of the other two Questions has been mentioned in any peer reviewed or non-peer reviewed journal.

First Catt Question. Give the www address for its animation.  http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm

Traditionally. when a TEM step (i.e. logic transition from low to high) travels in a transmission line through a vacuum from left to right, guided by two conductors (the signal line and the 0v line), there are four factors which make up the wave;

- electric current in the conductors i
- magnetic field, or flux, surrounding the conductors B
- electric charge on the surface of the conductors +q , -q
- electric field, or flux, in the vacuum terminating on the charge (Figure 2), D

The key to grasping the question is to concentrate on the electric charge -q on the bottom conductor. The step advances one foot per nanosecond. Extra negative charge appears on the surface of the bottom conductor to terminate the new lines (tubes) of electric flux D(figure 2) which appear between the top (signal) conductor and the bottom conductor.

Since 1982 the question has been: Where does this new charge come from?

The Second Catt Question. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x22j.pdf . Does the Displacement Current in the front face of a TEM step in a transmission line cause a magnetic field?

The Third Catt Question. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x3761.pdf . Is the field in a charged capacitor stationary? Give the www address of "The Wakefield Experiment". http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x343.pdf

Ivor Catt