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"Jimmie D" wrote in
: I did nt see any qualitative data given in the test results except saying that the short antennas performed nearly as well as the full size antennas. Hell, Ive heard 20db down reported as "nearly as well" or as "comparable with". Im sure the numbers had to be available so why werent they posted. Heh, heh. Jimmie youze is throwin' 'round them scientifical terms like "nearly as well" and "comparable to". Heck I'ze gettin' all confoozlated. But not so confusticated that I'll not get me wonna them mircle antennies! Seriously though, you are right. There has been precious little real data on this antenna since the first press release in '04. - 73 de Mike KB3EIA - |
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On 17 Jun, 19:34, Mike Coslo wrote:
"Jimmie D" wrote : I did nt see any qualitative data given in the test results except saying that the short antennas performed nearly as well as the full size antennas. Hell, Ive heard 20db down reported as "nearly as well" or as "comparable with". Im sure the numbers had to be available so why werent they posted. Heh, heh. Jimmie youze is throwin' 'round them scientifical terms like "nearly as well" and "comparable to". Heck I'ze gettin' all confoozlated. But not so confusticated that I'll not get me wonna them mircle antennies! Seriously though, you are right. There has been precious little real data on this antenna since the first press release in '04. - 73 de Mike KB3EIA - Look at the patent request to obtain the basics. The testing station tested it with a set up that is tracable to normal standard antennas. Results therefor can be compared against a standard antennas with confidence. The testing was done by a independent source so a review of the results shows what you get. The patent was accepted by the PTO so on the surface it would appear that there is something new here even if the experts are baying at the moon ahead of time knowing that all is known about antennas. It would be interesting if the independent test reports were included in the patent request which would infere that the PTO confirmed the propriety of the tests, usually by being present. Note the antenna was designed using a propriety computor program which the range test confirmed after the fact. |
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art wrote:
Look at the patent request to obtain the basics. The testing station tested it with a set up that is tracable to normal standard antennas. Results therefor can be compared against a standard antennas with confidence. The testing was done by a independent source so a review of the results shows what you get. The patent was accepted by the PTO so on the surface it would appear that there is something new here even if the experts are baying at the moon ahead of time knowing that all is known about antennas. not at all.. The PTO's current strategy is to grant the patent unless obviously defective, and let potential infringers down the road spend the time to break the patent. The examiners are fairly knowledgeable in their areas, but they also depend on what's in the application to describe why it's novel and doesn't merely duplicate prior art. It would be interesting if the independent test reports were included in the patent request which would infere that the PTO confirmed the propriety of the tests, usually by being present. One almost never puts test results in a patent application. Why would you..an invention doesn't have to actually work, today, it just has to be described appropriately, and have appropriate claims. There are lots of perfectly valid patents out there that have no test data: Feynman's patents on nuclear powered airplanes would be one. The "reduction to practice" requirement is met by "describing with sufficient detail that someone ordinarily skilled in the art can implement the invention". It's been over 100 years since the PTO required working models or test data. The only case where the PTO would actually have to have a working model demonstrated would be for a perpetual motion machine (and one other, which escapes me at the moment). Note the antenna was designed using a propriety computor program which the range test confirmed after the fact. And this is true for most antennas these days... Simple antennas have been around a while and wouldn't be likely to be patented. A complex antenna which might be patentable is probably tricky enough to build that one would want to model it first, before "cutting metal". And, any decent modeling code(s) will have extensive validation against range tests, so it's not much of a surprise when the antenna works as modeled. The surprises come from aspects that weren't modeled. |
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On 18 Jun, 11:52, Jim Lux wrote:
art wrote: Look at the patent request to obtain the basics. The testing station tested it with a set up that is tracable to normal standard antennas. Results therefor can be compared against a standard antennas with confidence. The testing was done by a independent source so a review of the results shows what you get. The patent was accepted by the PTO so on the surface it would appear that there is something new here even if the experts are baying at the moon ahead of time knowing that all is known about antennas. not at all.. The PTO's current strategy is to grant the patent unless obviously defective, and let potential infringers down the road spend the time to break the patent. The examiners are fairly knowledgeable in their areas, but they also depend on what's in the application to describe why it's novel and doesn't merely duplicate prior art. It would be interesting if the independent test reports were included in the patent request which would infere that the PTO confirmed the propriety of the tests, usually by being present. One almost never puts test results in a patent application. Why would you..an invention doesn't have to actually work, today, it just has to be described appropriately, and have appropriate claims. There are lots of perfectly valid patents out there that have no test data: Feynman's patents on nuclear powered airplanes would be one. The "reduction to practice" requirement is met by "describing with sufficient detail that someone ordinarily skilled in the art can implement the invention". It's been over 100 years since the PTO required working models or test data. The only case where the PTO would actually have to have a working model demonstrated would be for a perpetual motion machine (and one other, which escapes me at the moment). Note the antenna was designed using a propriety computor program which the range test confirmed after the fact. And this is true for most antennas these days... Simple antennas have been around a while and wouldn't be likely to be patented. A complex antenna which might be patentable is probably tricky enough to build that one would want to model it first, before "cutting metal". And, any decent modeling code(s) will have extensive validation against range tests, so it's not much of a surprise when the antenna works as modeled. The surprises come from aspects that weren't modeled. Let us have a fresh look at the emergence of this new antenna where amateurs confess that they do not know all the details but it MUST be a fake, but for why they cannot explain. The Naval antenna testing facility tested the antenna as they do with all military antennas. The test figures are published on the web ( put the antenna initials in Google) The computor program was home brewed and verified later by the IEEE, again see report on google. ) The test performed by the Navy also confirmed this home brewed report before the IEEE reviewed it after the fact Now I am in no way saying it has merit tho the methods used to check his claimes appear to have validity. Remember that I have provided a new antenna on this newsgroup. The mathematics were supported independendly and STANDARD computor programs confirm it but again amateurs cannot find themselves able to accept anything new. Look at Cecil's page where he has a Zepp dipole for all frequencies using stubs, do you think they believe Cecil? I wrote up a similar antenna where the tuning mechanism is a loop with a dipole protruding out from each side and where the loop is tuned with a variable capacitor which also emulates the Zepp for all frequencies( See the Gaussian thread). Even when hams model it they can't believe it, completely disregarding scientific back up. Remember it is AMATEUR radio who learn radio basics but only in a few cases actually UNDERSTAND the basics. I also provided a three element antenna on a eight foot boom that excels the specs that ARRL optimised in every region and at the same time provided more gain per unit length than the accepted Gain/Boom length graph printed in most books. Again amateurs are loathe to accept anything new except when it is in a book that they can learn from but not necessarily UNDERSTAND. As a side note, one of my past PTO examinas did not know the difference between parallel and series circuit but that is O.K. His job is to enter key words from an application and see what patents emerge so he can send them to the applicant, from then on it is resolved on grammatical terms . I would like to see a thorough examination of this new vertical antenna if only to find out where the Navy and the IEEE were in error. I certainly would not trash it on the basis of comments by amateurs on this newsgroup unless they provided credible proof that they were knoweledgable about the specifics of the antenna and could then provide credible reasons why it should not be accepted. That ofcourse will never happen in this newsgroup. Look up at the howl that emanated on this group on such a simple subject such as Gauss together with conservative and non conservative fields. We even have teachers in this group who could not come forward to explain it to others as well as some who denied any possibility of a connection. This is just an amateur group who likes to play word games with others to get a "gottcha", It is not a scientific group with credible backgrounds that by itself demands attention, it is just a group of amateurs from various fields and pursuits where their every post reflect their true abilities. Regards Art |
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![]() "art" wrote in message oups.com... On 18 Jun, 11:52, Jim Lux wrote: art wrote: and the IEEE were in error. I certainly would not trash it on the basis of comments by amateurs on this newsgroup unless they provided credible proof that they were knoweledgable about the specifics of the antenna and could then provide credible reasons why it should not be accepted. That ofcourse will never happen in this newsgroup. Look up at the howl that emanated on this group on such a simple subject such as Gauss together with conservative and non conservative fields. We even have teachers in this group who could not come forward to explain it to others as well as some who denied any possibility of a connection. This is just an amateur group who likes to play word games with others to get a "gottcha", It is not a scientific group with credible backgrounds that by itself demands attention, it is just a group of amateurs from various fields and pursuits where their every post reflect their true abilities. Regards Art simple answer... its a 3 year old article, who do you know that is selling them? if they were anything special someone would have picked them up and started marketing them. speaking of which, who have you lined up to sell your 'gaussian' designs art? can you even define it yet?? |
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On 18 Jun, 14:32, "Dave" wrote:
"art" wrote in message oups.com... On 18 Jun, 11:52, Jim Lux wrote: art wrote: and the IEEE were in error. I certainly would not trash it on the basis of comments by amateurs on this newsgroup unless they provided credible proof that they were knoweledgable about the specifics of the antenna and could then provide credible reasons why it should not be accepted. That ofcourse will never happen in this newsgroup. Look up at the howl that emanated on this group on such a simple subject such as Gauss together with conservative and non conservative fields. We even have teachers in this group who could not come forward to explain it to others as well as some who denied any possibility of a connection. This is just an amateur group who likes to play word games with others to get a "gottcha", It is not a scientific group with credible backgrounds that by itself demands attention, it is just a group of amateurs from various fields and pursuits where their every post reflect their true abilities. Regards Art simple answer... its a 3 year old article, who do you know that is selling them? if they were anything special someone would have picked them up and started marketing them. speaking of which, who have you lined up to sell your 'gaussian' designs art? can you even define it yet??- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Simple you say, there are two patent requests, one last year and one this year. Who said they are not making deals now? As far as a gaussian design definition you are not equipped to understand it. It has been stated on this group but with your lack of knoweledge about Gauss you can never be able to understand it, thus it is hard for you to consider yourself as legitarmate critic if you don't understand the subject. Per your posts thru the years you haven't found a person that you could like or you couldn't attack. Your posts reflect who you really are, somebody with no credability. |
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Dave wrote:
... simple answer... its a 3 year old article, who do you know that is selling them? if they were anything special someone would have picked them up and started marketing them. speaking of which, who have you lined up to sell your 'gaussian' designs art? can you even define it yet?? Funny you should mention that ... I tore apart last years cell phone. There is a strange looking "antenna" which is etched onto the pcb board--strikingly similar to what "he" (the guy with the "weird antenna" ) has described ... JS |
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Jim Lux wrote:
... And, any decent modeling code(s) will have extensive validation against range tests, so it's not much of a surprise when the antenna works as modeled. The surprises come from aspects that weren't modeled. Jim: Your text is interesting. I went ahead and put together, on the little I could glean from the info on this, an antenna. I marked a pvc pipe on both sides, drilled it, and put the wire though, basically as a series of hair pin loops. "Tap'ed" it, obtained a 50 ohm match (had to use a variable cap) and it works, I need more data ... I need a complete pic and data so I can duplicate his construction ... I have an open mind. However, this "thing" is so simple, it is better I confirm or reject "it" on my own observations ... it may, or may not, be nothing ... Regards, JS |
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On Jun 17, 11:07 pm, art wrote:
On 17 Jun, 19:34, Mike Coslo wrote: "Jimmie D" wrote : I did nt see any qualitative data given in the test results except saying that the short antennas performed nearly as well as the full size antennas. Hell, Ive heard 20db down reported as "nearly as well" or as "comparable with". Im sure the numbers had to be available so why werent they posted. Heh, heh. Jimmie youze is throwin' 'round them scientifical terms like "nearly as well" and "comparable to". Heck I'ze gettin' all confoozlated. But not so confusticated that I'll not get me wonna them mircle antennies! Seriously though, you are right. There has been precious little real data on this antenna since the first press release in '04. - 73 de Mike KB3EIA - Look at the patent request to obtain the basics. The testing station tested it with a set up that is tracable to normal standard antennas. Results therefor can be compared against a standard antennas with confidence. The testing was done by a independent source so a review of the results shows what you get. The patent was accepted by the PTO so on the surface it would appear that there is something new here even if the experts are baying at the moon ahead of time knowing that all is known about antennas. It would be interesting if the independent test reports were included in the patent request which would infere that the PTO confirmed the propriety of the tests, usually by being present. Note the antenna was designed using a propriety computor program which the range test confirmed after the fact.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - BIG DEAL, I can stick up a 6ft radiator over a good ground sytem like the one in the article add the appropriate inductance and capacitance to make it resonant ant match it to the feed and most people will be impressed by how well it works. Take that same antenna ,stick it in my back yard using the best ground system as will be practical there whith a feedline that is also practical with my backyard installation and that antenna is going to suck bilge water. The fact is if you have the real estate and the financial means for the kind og ground system you need to make a short antenna work as well as the claims made in the article you might as weel go ahead and erect a full size antenna. Jimmie |
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:04:18 -0700, JIMMIE
wrote: BIG DEAL, I can stick up a 6ft radiator over a good ground sytem like the one in the article add the appropriate inductance and capacitance to make it resonant ant match it to the feed and most people will be impressed by how well it works. Take that same antenna ,stick it in my back yard using the best ground system as will be practical there whith a feedline that is also practical with my backyard installation and that antenna is going to suck bilge water. The fact is if you have the real estate and the financial means for the kind og ground system you need to make a short antenna work as well as the claims made in the article you might as weel go ahead and erect a full size antenna. Jimmie Why erect a full sized 160 meter vertical IF a 40 foot vertical can do as well? -- 73 for now Buck, N4PGW www.lumpuckeroo.com "Small - broadband - efficient: pick any two." |
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