Topband: New style 1.8MHz antenna

[Tom Rauch]

<Can somebody please explain how a guy can get a patent on a shortened 1.8
MHz vertical?

Odd ideas and false or exaggerated claims repeat over and over again in
antennas Ford, and they sometimes do receive patents.

I was just in a meeting with a patent attorney and asked him the same thing,
and he said the patent office does not care if something actually works.
They simply check for obvious prior art, but much of the burden of accuracy
in that area falls back on depending on the courts. They don't care if
something works because if it doesn't work protection is generally
meaningless anyway.

In this case it appears there is no patent, and even if there was it
wouldn't mean anything. There was a popular CB antenna with similar grossly
exaggerated helical loading system claims several years ago, so this is old
stuff.

73 Tom