[BC] History re-write

[richardbrianjohnson at verizon.net]

We all know that history is re-written by the survivors. We also know that some governments delete history that shows them in a bad light. However I just found out that Wikipedia removed all references to me on my invention I gave to the world in 1959 when I invented the rubber ducky antenna in reform school and my cottage master, Guido Sandini published an article about it in QST..
 
In those days, antennas on portable equipment used telescoping rods! I was the first to use a resonant spring because all real engineers __know__ it couldn't possibly work. I was just a teen-age kid, ham call K1KLR, who didn't know enough about electronics to understand that it wouldn't possibly work.
 
 Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
http://www.AbominableFirebug.com