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
From: Fourlanders
[mailto:fourlanders-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of whensley11@comcast.net
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016
8:15 PM
To: Fourlanders
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
http://i.imgur.com/loS5b4U.jpg