[Fourlanders] Yagi Birthday

[Ron Rogers]

And most people don't know this but Uda actually did most of the development
and proof of concept work in the development of the directional antenna,
with Yagi playing a much less significant roll. But it was Yagi who actually
filed for the patent on the concept and left Uda's name off the filing.
How's that for the ultimate engineering plagiarism act !!  

 

Ron

WW8RR

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Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:15 PM
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Subject: [Fourlanders] Yagi Birthday

 

Via the Huntsville Group:

 

Today is the 130th birthday of Hidetsugu Yagi, co-inventor of the Yagi-Uda
antenna. Yes, the co-inventor.

 

2016 is the 90th anniversary of the antenna's patent being granted, a
technology which revolutionized radio
communication and played a large part in making our endeavors as amateur
radio operators more global in scope. It's also one of the main reasons
we're all able to work satellites and have directional high gain arrays for
HF as well.

 

Google Japan (http://www.google.co.jp/) has made it today's Google doodle:

 

http://i.imgur.com/loS5b4U.jpg

 

 

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