Yes, we celebrate and commemorate Mr. Yagi, but what of Mr. Uda? People often refer, in speaking and in print, of their beam antennas being "Yagis", but when do they ever call them "Udas" or even "Yagi-Udas"? When? Never. It just goes to show you, if you are even the co-inventor of something, fight, FIGHT to have your name put first on the invention. Otherwise, the world may forget you even were involved.
:-)
73,Curt W4CP
From: J. Boyd (JR2TTS) the2belo@msd.biglobe.ne.jp To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 5:48 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Happy birthday, Mr. Yagi
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 :)