> Mike Mertel, K7IR, developed what I believe is one the most innovative new > antenna ideas in years if not in decades. The U.S. Patenet office > apparently agrees and awarded him a patent for it. Mike is an Electrical > Engineer but I don't believe he worked in the antenna field before starting > SteppIR. That was born from his interest in ham radio. > > www.steppir.com >
> Clever application of long understood and applied techniques. Original and > innovative but hardly a state of the art advance. > > Dennis D. W7QHO > Glendale, CA Advancing the state of the art rarely involves quantum leaps. If that were the case, then the last major innovation in the field of electronics was the invention of the transistor or maybe the magnetic disk drive. Everything since then (integrated circuits, microprocessors, memory, etc) is just an incremental improvement to an existing technology. Before the transistor it was probably the vaccum tube. For radio, the invention of telephony, RTTY and television were the last quantum leaps. SSB certainly would not qualify as advancing the state of the art based on the criteria you seem to be applying. Advancing the state of the art is any original and innovative idea that improves the art. 'The current state of the art in electronics and radio is based on thousands and thousands of small and innovative but incremental improvements to the art. Clay W7CE ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] AMfone Website: http://www.amfone.net AM List Admin: Brian Sherrod/w5ami, Paul Courson/wa3vjb
