[TowerTalk] Ultrabeam

[Mike]

I *REALLY* want to see the 4el 6-80!! Not that I could afford the 
antenna, or the land it would shade.
73
Mike NF4L

jim Jarvis wrote:
> Looks for all the world like a contravention of the SteppIR patent,  
> although I haven't
> researched it to be sure.    There appear to be some mechanical  
> improvements over
> the Mertel brothers' design, but an awful lot is simply a copy.
>
> There is flattery, and then there is thievery.    The question is  
> whether there's enough
> money at stake for the Mertels to challenge this ripoff.
>
> Curiously,  I still have my engineering notebook from 1975, signed  
> and witnessed,
> which describes this antenna.   The moving elements were the easy  
> part.   Control was
> the economic block.   It was the availability of PIC controllers  
> which made it
> feasible as a commercial product.
>
> I suppose if one could go to the trouble of creating a replica of a  
> dead sea scroll, or
> the shroud of Turin,  one could create an engineering notebook  
> documenting prior
> design and protection under italian law.    Or, maybe it really exists.
>
> One certainty:   At EU1600,  I'm not buying one!
>
> N2EA
>
>
> Jim Jarvis, MBA
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