Explain, please. What is wrong with Kraus's works?

Alan AB2OS


On 07/20/04 09:40 pm Cecil Moore put fingers to keyboard and launched
the following message into cyberspace:

John Kraus W8JK has passed away at age 94. He is the inventor of the
corner reflector, helix and W8JK antennas.

I'm really sorry to hear that. But his works will live in infamy.

Minnie Bannister wrote:
Explain, please. What is wrong with Kraus's works?

Mea Culpa! I would have bet $100 that the definition of infamy was
"forever famous". I had no idea that it is defined only in a negative
context. When people said I was "infamous" on this newsgroup, I took
it as a compliment. I believe the modern appropriate response is:

My bad!

John Kraus is one of my heroes. My ignorance of the definition of
a word certainly wasn't intended to dim his accomplishments.
--
73, Cecil



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There is now a nice article about Dr. Kraus posted to the ARRL web
site at: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/07/21/1/

73,
Jeff K8ND

"Bob Dixon" wrote in message
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John Kraus W8JK has passed away at age 94. He is the inventor of the
corner reflector, helix and W8JK antennas.

Bob W8ERD

Walter Maxwell, W2DU wrote:
Brown was ridiculed for suggesting such blasphemy, even by the U.S.
Patent Office in rejecting his patent application."

Yes. I remember reading John Kraus` account of the situation. As I
recall, the IRE rejected George Brown`s findings and would not publish
his paper. Kraus figuered the IRE wouldn`t publish a similar paper from
him either. So he waited his time until he had a related paper to
publish and then Kraus attached Brown`s work. It sailed through the
reviewers and was published.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI