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Dear Professor Mahta Moghaddam.
I note that you are Editor-in-Chief
of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
I also note that “Contributors are encouraged to
contact the magazine Editor-in-Chief before submitting their articles to
inquire whether their prospective submission is within the scope of the
magazine.”
As Ivor Catt, the subject
of your article “Catt’s Anomaly”, now at http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x54c.pdf , IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol.
54, No. 6, December 2012 , by massimiliano.pieraccini@unifi
.it; stefano.selleri@unifi .it , I need guidance from
you.
Please advise me as to what extent you will allow me to publish comment on this article. Will
there be a limit on the length of my comments?
Will you limit me to pointing out factual errors, or will you also allow me to
point out misrepresentations in the article? For examples of misrepresentation,
the subject of the IEEE article has never been called “Catt’s Anomaly”, and for
more than a decade has consistently been called “The Catt Question”. Also,
where has Catt ever said that “in his
opinion, electric charge doesn’t exist!”.
The article mixes up Catt theory with Catt questions about classical theory.
The distinction is made clear here and elsewhere; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/99ocattq.htm . This is in spite of the fact that your authors
have obviously studied my work a great deal.
Until this article, nothing on “The Catt Question”
has ever been published in a peer reviewed journal. “The Catt Question” was
first published elsewhere in 1982. It is at http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/cattq.htm . I put it in a self-published book in 1996/2001. http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/28anom.htm . This book does not contain any Catt theory, but
is a question about classical theory, and publishes the contradictory answers
by experts.
One of the authors, Massimiliano Pieraccini ,
did not reply to my email, although I admit that so far I have only tried once.
I am sending this email to the authors.
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Dear Dr. Catt,
Thank you for contacting me. In the Cc: list of this email you will find
the authors of the article you had referenced (Drs. Pieraccini
and Selleri, whom you had also copied on your email),
the AP Magazine Editor-in-Chief at the time the article was published (Dr. Ross
Stone), and the Associate Editor of the Historical Corner (Dr. Pelosi) under
whose column the article appeared.
The Magazine does provide a forum for publishing comments. Here are the
procedures and bounding parameters that I request:
1. Length of the Comments to be limited to one printed page.
2. Contents of the Comments to be focused on pointing out factual
errors, if any.
3. Comments to be sent to me; I will then forward your comments to the
authors and allow them a period of 3 weeks to submit a response (also limited
to one page) that would appear concurrently with your comments. You and the
authors may wish to confer before your comments and their responses are
finalized. Time to respond may be extended if required.
4. I reserve the right to edit/moderate the contributions of both sides.
I invite Dr. Ross Stone to express his views on the above process as
well, due to his higher degree of familiarity with the article in question,
since the article was published while he was at the helm of the Magazine.
Please don't hesitate to contact me in case of further questions or
concerns.
Best regards,
Mahta Moghaddam
Editor-in-Chief
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
3737 Watt Way, PHE 634
Los Angeles, CA 90089