[en] An unambiguous and model-independent separation of direct and compound elastic cross section was performed by a simultaneous fluctuation analysis of the cross section and the analyzing power for the reaction 30Si(p/sub pol/,p0)30Si. The compound elastic cross section was calculated by means of Hauser-Feshbach theory without any adjustable parameters. Comparison of experiment with the calculation results in a compound-elastic enhancement factor of 2.09 +- 0.14 for this strong-absorption, many-channel case