[TowerTalk] quads

[K0FF]

Right Tom. The only insult going on these day's is that we call the antenna
a Yagi. It is a Yagi-Uda. Invented solely by Dr. Yagi's student, Mr. Uda and
popularized/published by Dr. Yagi as the Yagi-Uda antenna.
All early publications referred to it as such, and I'm sure when it was
shortened, the inventor was not forgotten. I doubt if today's generation
ever heard the name Uda.

Maybe we should resurrect the name in some way, out of respect.
Geo>K0FF
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>;
thompson@mindspring.com <thompson@mindspring.com>
Date: Friday, May 26, 2000 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] quads


>
>> The discussion seems to have gotten around to quads and it seems they
take
>> a bad rap every time.
>
>Why is it that when an antenna is discussed factually, rather than
>emotionally or empirically, we consider it giving an antenna a "bad
>rap?
>
>No one said quads won't radiate and receive as well as a yagi if
>both are properly constructed. Saying there is little difference or no
>difference isn't an insult.
>
>Virtually all of the biggest amateur stations in the world use yagi's,
>and virtually of the commercial services that use parasitic arrays
>use yagi's. It's actually quite a compliment to be considered on-par
>with a workhorse like a yagi, not an insult.
>
>
>73, Tom W8JI
>w8ji@contesting.com
>
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