Remark on Harmuth' s 'Correction of Maxwell' s equations for signals.I' and response

The commenter maintains that the claims made by H.F. Harmuth in the above-titled paper (ibid., vol.EMC-28, p.250-8, Nov. 1986) that a satisfactory condition for the existence of solutions for transients in lossy media is the modification of Maxwell's equations by the addition of a magnetic current density is not valid. In his reply, Harmuth states that if the commenter's claim holds true regardless of the method of solution, he will have contributed an important simplification to the problem of transient solutions of Maxwell's equations. He provides further discussion of the commenter's point