[DeMo180a]

Hey guys,
Thanks for all the knowledge sharing on this antenna. I may have overstated it's capability by mixing terms.

The inventor claims that the antenna doesn't need to be "cut" per se because it passively tunes to whatever you plug it into. It sounded like the antenna "dumbs down" to whatever the capability of the radio is. So if the system can do full duplex, than so can the antenna, if the radio can frequency hop - the same antenna will freq hop. If the system pushes out 400 watts or 4 watts the antenna can handle both efficiently. It can also have multiple radio's from multiple frequency bands all plugged into it at the same time. I don't think we can transmit on it all at the same time, but I've got no way to test that.
I do know, by looking at that NASA data, that the radio has an extremely "deep bucket", so it's super sensitive and can pick up very weak signals. As a matter of fact they recently tested it in underground facilities and found it to be significantly more effective than the systems they currently had in place.

This is fresh off the brainpan and into the field testing market so there isn't any real data to crunch. I've got some graphs from NASA testing that says it phenomenal, but like I said for all I know it was some other antenna and not the one I've got in my hands. However, if I could get someone I trust to tell me this thing is special, or not - and he is one of our own - then I would be energized.

I read what Ret10Echo wrote, although it took a couple of times and I couldn't read it without moving my lips to sound out the big words - but many of the things you mentioned about fractional antenna's the inventor also mentioned. This antenna looks like some kind of circuit board that has a bunch of little hexagonal shaped things all over it (if you could see what it looked like disassembled).
I don't know if that adds to the discussion or not.

There is no REAL documentation on this antenna you can find on the web. What you may find is all a bunch of hearsay and theoretical thinking. I'm not holding onto the information 'cause I'm competing with some other vendor or anything like that. We are the sole distributor of this item to DOD, but right now we don't know if we want to put our name on it until we know for sure it can do what it says it can do.

I'm hoping to tap into some REAL data that we can measure this antenna against. Would anyone be willing to look at this thing from an independent view and see if it's for real? I'm gonna talk to some of my old 1st Group Commo buds after the holidays to do some field testing, but I need someone that can just measure dB gain and the pattern it resonates at. You know, all that stuff they taught me at the 18E course 15 years ago on antenna thereoy!
Do you guys know of anyone who would be interested in doing that?

Thanks again, and Happy Thanksgiving all -

DeMo