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| | IEEE History Center - Directive Short Wave Antenna, 1924 |
 | | In these laboratories, beginning in 1924, Professor Hidetsugu Yagi and his assistant, Shintaro Uda, designed and constructed a sensitive and highly-directional antenna using closely-coupled parasitic elements. |
 | | The antenna system, utilizing a driven element with closely coupled parasitics (usually a reflector and one or more directors) for short-wave work, was first described by S. Uda, a professor at Tohuku University in Japan, in 1926, in the IEEJ (Japan). |
 | | A colleague, Professor H. Yagi, collaborated in the developmental work and published the more widely read English version in the June 1928 IRE Proceedings. |
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