[TowerTalk] News from Bencher

[Tom Rauch]

> Hi, all - A bit of history, which some of you may already know:  The open
> sleeve feed was invented by Dr. Boljhan while he was at SRI in the 50's.
> What our innovative friend Tom Schiller patented, was using it for more
> than 2 frequencies! 

14.0500 and 14.0502 are two different frequencies. My antennas 
work on millions of different frequencies. There is no such thing as 
a lossless feed system.

>From recent discussions with a patent attorney,  and
> as Tom Rauch pointed out, patents are easier to get now; the patent office
> seems to be granting easily, and shoving all the arguing out to the
> courts.

Amen. 

Can you imagine someone patenting a 4 element Uda-Yagi, and 
someone else patenting a five element Uda-Yagi? I can, if the 
antenna was popularized today!


73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com

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