[TowerTalk] News from Bencher

[wa4dou@juno.com]

Judging from the post, its implied that they are switching from an open
sleeve to a closed sleeve feed system. Apparently Tom holds a patent on
the "open sleeve" feed method. It is not new, been used years ago, one
case i remember was multiband verticals. 73 Roy WA4DOU
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 07:06:38 -0400 "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
writes:
> 
> > If you have had any prior interest you knew that the Bencher 
> Skyhawk was
> > withdrawn from the market earlier this year due to a possible 
> patent
> > infringement. We stated that we were redesigning the feed to 
> resolve this
> > problem.
> 
> What patent did they infringe on? I don't see anything done in the 
> Skyhawk that hasn't been done for years!
> 
> Anyone have any idea?
> 
> 
> 73, Tom W8JI
> w8ji@contesting.com
> 
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