[TowerTalk] What happened to the Fractal Design in Ham Antennas

[Roger (K8RI)]

Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> jimlux wrote:
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>> Limited commercial viability (e.g. no big advantage over other shortened 
>> antenna designs, so a lot more marketing sizzle than steak) and a patent 
>> owner (Nathan Cohen) rumored to be litigious to boot.
>>
>> fractenna.com
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>
> Reminds me of the Cuk inductorless switching power supply.  It certainly 
> represented out of the box thinking and maybe had some advantages over 
> other supplies in certain applications.  However, it was patented and I 
> guess the licensing was onerous so it never saw much use.  The patent is 
> now expired but it still hasn't been adopted.
>   

Kinda like the Sylvania? Loctal (sp?) socket. Wikipeda managed to get 
the information on the Loctal messed up.  It was a good socket, and 
generally well liked, but Sylvania was pretty tight with their licensing 
which is why it was not widely used.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> Rick N6RK
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