On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:52:56 -0800, Richard Clark
wrote:

There is only one question that remains, really, what is IT that you
are claiming?

Hmm, killer question no doubt. A Broadway producer once sagely noted
that if you cannot express your idea on the back of business card, you
don't really have much to offer.

If we are to rummage through the dusty attic of rambling thoughts:
Pretty much everybody scorned the idea that antennas could be
made better than the yagi because all was known let alone a completely
new
line of designs which were not made up of parassitic elements let
alone of
mainly resonant elements in cluster form for choice of polarity.

Would it be galling, Art, for you to be the last to know that Roy has
been publishing Gaussian antennas (not his term, thankfully) for years
and distributed freely with every copy of his modeling software? Would
it be unsettling to realize that Hams have been building them for
decades? Would you be stunned to learn that their theory has been
explained since Marconi was only operating at 5WPM?

Surprised? Consult the Radiotelegraphy chapter of "Standard Handbook
for Electrical Engineers," 1907-1917. Pay attention to the design
called "Bellini-Tosi directive antenna."
"By placing the moving coil in the proper position
signals can be sent in any plane desired."

This was at least 20 years before Yagi and Uda.

An online reference to them 101 years ago:
http://souvenirs-de-mer.blogdns.net/article64.html
or from 102 years ago:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:...ient=firefox-a
dating back 107 years ago:
http://dspt.club.fr/Applications.htm

This topic is so old it creaks everytime the casket is robbed.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC