Publishing at IMS - Part I: How to get your paper published at IMS

My host firmly told me, "It\´s just an Old Boy\´s Club." We were talking about getting papers accepted to the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). After several rejections, he no longer submitted papers to IMS. This is a real shame because IMS is the premier RF/microwave conference in the world. His perception was that the IMS Technical Paper Review Committee (TPRC), consisting of more than 250 of the world\´s leading RF/microwave researchers, gave favored status to its own members.