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