Whatever. I think we're splitting hairs now. The fact is that hams are not in the forefront now, but private industry is, and has been for decades.
On 16 Jan 2006 at 8:07, Clay Curtiss W7CE wrote: > > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 >
