Reply to Hills et al

[...]their choice to use it over the full band was not justified. Judd D. Bowman1·, Alan E. E. Rogers2, Raul A. Monsalve1'3'4'5'6, Thomas J. Mozdzen1 & Nivedita Mahesh1 1School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. 2Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Westford, MA, USA. 3Department of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. 4McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. 5Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. 6Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile. *e-mail: judd.bowman@asu.edu Published online 19 December 2018. First results on the epoch of reionization from first light with SARAS 2.