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Old June 18th 07, 02:55 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
[email protected] herbert.don@gmail.com is offline
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Default Guy from university physics dept. makes claims to incite/provoke amateurs!

i'm not as smart as you but I do know tht even a mached paper clip
would give roughly the same results.

On Jun 17, 5:34 pm, art wrote:
On 17 Jun, 17:24, John Smith I wrote:

Jimmie D wrote:


...


Still, nothing new, short antennas work quite well especially when used with
a very high quality ground system.


Jimmie


Actually, antennas that short, at least normally, perform quite poorly,
with efficiencies in the single digits ...


JS


I assume that the testing people know their business so why can't hams
accept it?
I know that a member of this group attended one of the lectures of
this
inventor so a check of the archives might provide the extra info.
The patent was awarded so one can assume that the design is providing
something new.
Art