[TowerTalk] URI magic antennas

[Dave Bernstein]

I agree that the track record for recently announced amazing new antenna
inventions has been poor, but are you really asserting that there will
be no new antenna designs from here on?

     73,

         Dave, AA6YQ


-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tom Rauch
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 22:47
To: jimjarvis at ieee.org; Towertalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] URI magic antennas


> The press release says nothing, except to suggest 3 dB
greater
> signal from whatever this loaded monopole is, vs. 'normal'
monopoles.

A west-coast amateur predicted a new magic antenna was due
to appear soon. Magical antennas all follow the same basic script with
different "fill in the blank" phrases.

________ was accidentally discovered by a fellow who works
part time on antennas because he needed an antenna that had high
performance in limited space.

The __________  antenna does not follow conventional rules,
and cannot be modeled in normal MOM based programs. It was verified by
the person who invented it in over-the-air tests in at least _________
locations, where it was successfully compared to other reference
antennas of unknown efficiency.

The ________ will eventually benefit society by _________.

What you will always find is the inventor:

1.) Never used a real antenna range or real test setup
2.) Never had it peer reviewed or verified by independent sources
3.) Always discovers some new physics everyone else "missed"
4.) Often uses "X worked XX with only XXX watts" as proof of some
absolute performance.

These things repeat so often, I'm shocked anyone would
believe something that fits the same pattern over and over.

DDRR, CFA, Fractals, CTA, E-H, Super-C, and so on. I'll omit the various
beams and quads, some of which are still on the market (like 20dB gain
super contest quagi's from the 80's and 6dB gain two-element antennas
from the 90's and later).

73 Tom


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