27 Jan
2016
27 Jan
'16
4:48 p.m.
Just pointing out that today is the 130th birthday of Hidetsugu Yagi, co-inventor of the Yagi-Uda antenna. 2016 is the 90th anniversary of the antenna's patent being granted, a technology which revolutionized radio communication and played a large part in making our endeavors as amateur radio operators more global in scope. It's also one of the main reasons we're all able to work satellites.
Google Japan (http://www.google.co.jp/) has made it today's Google doodle:
http://i.imgur.com/loS5b4U.jpg
For some reason I felt very excited about this, as if we all got on the news :)
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J. Boyd, JR2TTS/NI3B
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