Do you find an actual voltage reading to be a magical entity completely disassociated from paper calculations?
If you figured out it was a biasing error from a voltage divider calculation, the same number taken off a direct reading shouldn't be giving you this much difficulty.
Troll much? If I thought that, why would I be arguing to use calculations to match your readings?
The biasing was actually correct. Just for whatever reason we were getting half the voltage we wanted at the input of the amplifier. Actually, along those lines, how would you even know that you weren't supposed to get half? You measured some voltage, how do you know that it's the wrong one?
A direct reading of the input waveform will just show you some value which you don't even know if it's correct. BJT is fine, resistors are fine, voltage supply is fine. It turns out that the amplifier chosen will never work with the source chosen to get what you expected because the input impedance of the entire amplifier is too low.
I can't believe you're still arguing this.