[Fourlanders] Yagi Birthday

[Scott Spencer]

One word…

Japanese



> On Jan 27, 2016, at 9:13 PM, Ron Rogers <ww8rr at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> 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 !!  
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> Ron
> WW8RR
> From: Fourlanders [mailto:fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of whensley11 at comcast.net
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:15 PM
> To: Fourlanders
> Subject: [Fourlanders] Yagi Birthday
>  
> Via the Huntsville Group:
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> 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:
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> http://i.imgur.com/loS5b4U.jpg
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