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Institution or magazine is only as good as people in it. Obviously UofRI does not have RF department, otherwise the technician would not be the star "inventor", if they had even dummy like me, that would not fly out into the press release and patent office. (Well, you can patent anything now a days, but why waste money, unless you expect to fool some clueless buyers.) ARRL and QST is slipping in quality and reviewing what goes out. See the wrong "wisdom" of distribution of current in the loading coils that was started by Belrose in the 50ies and propagated through Compendia and ARRL Antenna book and defended by W8JI till this modern times. There are more half baked articles showing up with time. Internet helps to discuss and correct some stuff, but seems that with time, we are getting more "experts" discovering perpetuum mobile and getting away with it. Good thing it is only a hobby and some bright minds are still around at this NG :-) 73 Yuri Yuri What I find hard to understand is that the University has placed its name behind it.! The professors at the university had years to review the design and I presume stood behing it. I also understand that actual measurements were taken albiet possibly with misuse of equipment.. I also find it odd that the ARRL did not get a jump on it before today as the inventor has connections with them. and wide spread notice that he also was a ham. FCC is probably snickering now about ham operator statments including those of the ARRL comments regarding use of power lines Its a shame that the ARRL will take a laid back aproach on this antenna until they have had a chance to review comments from elswhere. There must be something that was missed at the show possibly because of a prior belief that it was a fake regardless of what he said. In the mean time I accept your analysis sinc eyou were there as was Chip. Hopefully Tom W8TI was there and jotted down drawings from the' how to make' session so that he can point out errors and falacies in the analysis from the first session where many graphs were presented of the findings and possibly the technology behind it Regards Art |
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