Reg,

I'm afraid you're wasting your time trying to convince mere amateurs
with your carefully reasoned and flawless logic.

Instead, I suggest you concentrate your efforts on the true
professionals out there. Surely, they'll immediately see the wisdom of
your arguments and change their careless ways.

I'm talking of course about the engineers in such unenlightened
companies as HP/Agilent, Narda, Tektronix, Wiltron/Anritsu, and their
colleagues and competitors in the U.K. They're constantly making the
same egregious error, by specifying the SWR of terminating resistors,
connectors, test equipment device inputs, and even (gasp) outputs.

Once the professionals change their ways, amateurs, copycats as they
are, will surely follow.

Good luck with your quest!

Roy Lewallen, W7EL