[ARC5] Fwd: Conductive fabric ... was [Glowbugs] RF Ground Underlayment

Roy Morgan k1lky at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 19 16:22:37 EST 2013



> On Jan 19, 2013, at 2:07 AM, Michael Tauson wrote:
>> ... it could also be a wearable antenna by sewing a tuned length  
>> into a
>> garment.
>
> It was a long time ago when Mr. Yagi and Mr. Uda (of  Japan, yes?)  
> published a paper outlining the basic idea of what we now know as  
> the Yagi antenna.  I used to work with a physicist and ham who had a  
> fine sense of both adventure and humor.  He once parked two Honda  
> cars end to end and loaded them up in a balanced way on 40 meters  
> for field day.  He called it the Yagi-Uda-Honda.

>  He is also known to have experimented with braziers for quite large  
> size ladies having wire support structures, likely on much   higher  
> frequencies.Roy

Roy Morgan
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