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Olympus PEN Mini review :
The current Olympus PEN camera assortment is made up of three system cameras, the Olympus PEN Mini (E-PM1) being the most compact. The 12 megapixel Olympus PEN Mini has a stylish appearance, however, its weight is especially noteworthy, as the Olympus PEN Mini only weighs 216 grams. The Olympus PEN Mini Micro Four Thirds camera, next to high quality photos, can also shoot Full HD videos in AVCHD format, with stereo sound. Furthermore, the camera is full of creative possibilities, such as art filters and special effects. We brought the Olympus PEN Mini with us to Tunisia in order to examine it in an extensive practical test.
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By looking at the menu, it quickly becomes clear that the Olympus PEN Mini is ideal is for beginner, enthusiastic photographers. For each menu item, if desired, there is an extra explanation available. You can easily read all photo tips and the Live Guide menu gives direct access to important settings, such as aperture and depth of field. The camera itself indicates what you should adjust in order to achieve the best result; moreover, you immediately see which effect the adjusted setting has. The Live Guide menu works easily and is can be applied to both photo and video recordings.
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Due to the compact format, it takes some getting used to how best to hold the Olympus PEN Mini. On the back to the right, there is a rubber grip, which contributes to better hand placement. The Olympus PEN Mini has a limited amount of buttons; the lack of a dial is immediately noticeable. The dial's functionality (P, A, S, M, iAuto, Art, Scn, Video) is at hand via the menu button. Remaining functions can quickly be found via the Live Guide function or via the menu. Part of the menu is normally switched off. If you want to change settings or use the accessory port, then you will have to apply the menu itself.
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The Olympus PEN Mini, just like the other PEN system cameras, has a new shutter system. Thanks to the renewed auto focus, with a mere 35 focal points, the Olympus PEN Mini can focus rapidly and accurately. Further, the Olympus PEN Mini can take high-speed shots up to 5.5 shots per second, which is ideal for photographing playing children or sports events. Additionally, we must not forget the image stabilization. Since the Olympus PEN Mini uses image stabilization via a sensor-shift, it does not matter which lens (with or without stabilization) you use, unintended camera shake is always compensated. The Olympus PEN Mini has a relatively large image sensor with an ISO range from 200 to 12800. This Micro Four Thirds camera delivers good image quality, with extra sharp contrasts, true-to-life colors and intense brightness.
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The Olympus PEN Mini has a mere 23 different scenes. Next to the usual scenes, think of portrait, landscape, macro and candlelight, the Olympus PEN Mini also has a Panorama and 3D function, and fish-eye and wide-angle effects. Additionally, the Olympus PEN system cameras are known for their creative Art filters. The Olympus PEN Mini has about six Art filters so that you can give your photos a personalized, artistic touch: pop-art, soft-focus, grainy film, pinhole, diorama and dramatic.
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The back of the Olympus PEN Mini is dominated by the 3" LCD screen with 460,000 pixels. The Micro Four Thirds camera does not have an electronic viewfinder, making the LCD screen an important part of the camera. The Olympus PEN Mini can be expanded with an optional viewfinder. The Olympus PEN Mini comes with a 14-42 mm kit lens. It also comes with an external flash, to compensate for the lack of an internal flash. Furthermore, there is an accessory port directly under the hot shoe, in order to connect several accessories. Think of the SEMA-1 stereo microphone, the RM-UCI remote operation cable, the MAL-1 Macro arm lighting and the PENPAL PP-1 Bluetooth-transmitter.
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The Olympus PEN Mini is ideal for people that truly value good quality photos and video recordings, but find a digital SLR camera much too heavy and complicated. The Olympus PEN Mini is easy to operate and offers good image quality, thanks to the relatively large sensor, the fast auto focus and the built-in image stabilization. Furthermore, the creative filters are a fun addition in order to make photos and videos artistic. There are enough extension possibilities, think of the external flash that comes included or the optional electronic viewfinder. With a retail value of approximately 450 Euros, the Olympus PEN Mini offers a good price/quality ratio and with a choice of six different colors, everybody is satisfied.
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Company Overview of Sumitomo Life Insurance Company
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Sumitomo Life Insurance Company provides life insurance products primarily in Japan. It offers medical and nursing care insurance, as well as retirement planning products; individual life insurance and individual annuities; group insurance and group annuities; workers' asset-formation insurance and annuities; and other insurance products. The company markets its products through sales representatives, financial institutions, and insurance outlets. Sumitomo Life Insurance Company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.
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Sumitomo Life Insurance Company announced unaudited consolidated earnings results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2016. For the quarter, the company reported ordinary income of JPY 1,017,049 million against JPY 946,727 million a year ago. Ordinary profit was JPY 63,033 million against JPY 36,776 million a year ago. Surplus before income taxes was JPY 15,888 million against JPY 23,170 million a year ago. Net surplus attributable to the parent company was JPY 15,117 million against JPY 20,279 million a year ago. Premium revenue increased 5.7% to JPY 789.1 billion, backed by strong sales of individual annuity products and on the back of its acquisition of a U.S. life insurer in February. Core profit tumbled by 49.5% to JPY 42.7 billion.
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United States Patent 1191 Majkrzak et al.
[ June 18, 1974 SHIPBOARD YARDARM HALF-WAVE 3,623,! 13 11/1971 Faigen 1. 343/823 ANTENNA [75] Inventors: Charles P. Majkrzak, Nutley; P
rtmary Exammer-El1 Lieberman Pulsar Oceanport both Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Menotti J. Lombardi, Jr.; 0 John T. OHalloran [73] Assignee: lntemational Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Nuttley, NJ. 22 Filed: Jan. 18, 1973 [571 ABSTRACT [21} Appl' 324607 Two frequency-adjustable antennas of the type having a helix and cylinder coaxially arranged end-to-end are [52] US. Cl 343/709, 343/792, 343/822, hemselves arranged inversely end-to-end in a e-wave 343/823, 343/885,,343/895 dipole antenna arrangement that is entirely ground [51] Int. Cl. H0lq 9/16 plane independent. The end-to-end radiators are ar- [58] Field of Search 343/823, 895, 709, 792, ranged about a Common drive means which, While 343/822, 885 providing the main structural support of the antenna arrangement, provides simultaneous synchronous tun- [56] References Cited ing of each leg of the antenna arrangement.
UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,91 1,234 5/1933 Meyer 343/823 13 Claims, 6 Drawing Figures 1 1 .t a: e
[6a I4Q A/vre/wvA MOUNT 15 AND CASING 38 YARD ARM 5/ 36a 56/30 1 Rf. m or 0R our ar 59 eta/v5 MOTOR 34' 2611 TAP #550 Ponvr 25 o/aecm/c DRIVE SHAFTQG /-HE1./X 2/ DR/Vi SP/NE 27 SHOR 7'/NC T085 34 CAPACITOR (c YL/NOA'R) 22 SHORT/1V6 anus/1 24b SUPPtEMEA/TAQ Y CAPACITANCE AND CORONA CAP 28 PAIENTED JUNI 81974 SHEET 2 OF 2 c-lk'xj ANTENNA Mou/vr AND cAs/lvq 38 TAP FEED Po/Nr 85 w m 0 O R 0 w P w A R 3 3 0 u 3 0. n 6 a 6 3 3 pm a ,m ,m 3 3 H I (E 3 M R A w m DRIVE MOTOR 3 HELIX 2/ OIELEC TR/C DR E SHAFT 86 RAOOME 23 SHORT/NC BRUSH 24a.
.SI/OR r/Nc ruse 24 CAPACITOR (c Y4 mos/a) 22 DR/ VE SP/NE a 7 SHIPBOARD YARDARM HALF-WAVE ANTENNA BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to antennas and more particularly to a tunable dipole antenna arrangement having an effective electrical length which may be adjusted to equal desired fractions of wavelengths over a relatively broad band of frequencies.
A related prior art disclosure may be found in US Pat. No. 2,875,433, issued to A. G. Kandoian, Feb. 24, 1959, the subject matter of which, insofar as it is relevant and material to the instant disclosure, is incorporated herein by reference. This prior art' antenna arrangement, which may now be identified in the art as a helix/cylinder combination, is an MF/HF antenna optimized for submarine use. Several different versions have been developed. The basic design approach, however, presents the fundamental advantages of high efficiency, reliability and power handling capability. This is a physically short antenna wherein all tuning and matching is accomplished within itself and within a protective radome.
One means for enhancing efficiency is to increase the electrical length of a radiator by reducing the phase velocity on it. This can be achieved by using a resonant helix in the normal mode as the radiating element, which results in a higher radiation impedance, the elimination of an external tuner, and the operation of transmission lines with low standing wave ratios. Since the helix is an inductor, it is possible to tap a feed line into it s few turns from the lowest turn and match impedances without using additional circuits.
For a given efficiency, a helical radiator permits the use of a shorter length than that necessary for a large and unwieldy whip antenna for example. Such helical antennas are quite short enough to permit enclosure within a radome of a submarine, which radome also provides physical support and can be fully retracted into the subs sail. These features, together with the low loading moments resulting from a short radiator, provide a significant improvement in shipboard reliability. Moreover, it may be readily used as a receiving antenna.
The enclosed radiator is basically composed of a helix and a cylinder thereabove arranged in such a manner as to permit the combination to be electrically tuned to specific frequencies. Tuning is accomplished through varying the effective inductance of the helix in relation to the capacitance of the cylinder by shorting out or electrically eliminating helix turns. Power is fed to the antenna through a tap discretely located so as to produce a desired impedance characteristic of say 50 ohms. With the additional use of a grounding switch, the antenna can be tuned over for example a desired frequency range of 2 to 30 MHz with standing wave ratios of below 3 to l.
The desired tuning characteristics may therefore be had by remotely selecting the proper position of the shorting element and the proper setting for the grounding switch. The shorting element is driven to a select position by an electric motor and held there; a position that corresponds to the desired operating frequency but-is determined for example by a precalibrated digital read-out on the front panel of a control unit.
In surface vessel use, the actual efficiency depends significantly upon the height of the antenna above the deck of the ship. There exist definite problems having the antenna mountedon the deck of the ship in order to achieve a ground plane, the problems including hazardous high voltages and radiation being located within easy reach of personnel, and the fact that valuable deck space is required. Moreover, deck gear and ships structure also interfere with the antenna radiation and give largely unpredictable results.
There has been a long felt need to remove antennas of this type, i.e., with the electrical, and other advantages above-mentioned, from the deck and mount them for example from a yardarm off the ships mast and out harms way without sacrificing any of the physical or electrical advantages. Until the instant invention, no successful means or arrangement had been found to accomplish this, even though it has been a recognized military problem for over a decade.
The invention achieves the above objective by electrically and physically combining two of the abovementioned prior art arrangements, significantly modified, end-to-end, in a vertical orientation, thus removing the need for a ground plane, as the inventive antenna arrangement is thus fully capable of Vz-wave dipole operation mountable from a yardarm of the ships mast.
However, the long-recognized problem alluded to above was not solved merely by the end-to-end mounting of these antennas physically and electrically. In the contemplated type of antenna structure, i.e., helix/cylinder combination, it will be appreciated, in view of the prior art above-referenced, that there is an intercoupling member of predetermined length in electrical degrees relative to the intended frequencies of operation, which member is movable to change the operating resonant frequency of the above-referenced antenna by moving the, taps on the inductive (helical) part and the capacitive (cylindrical) part in fixed relationship.
Thus, means are required to enable equal simultaneous tuning of both halves of the end-to-end arrangement according to the invention in order that there will be always the same frequency of operation from both halves. This, of course, requires closely identical construction of the two halves or legs of the dipole and'also accurate synchronous tuning. The most efficient and dependable synchronous tuning would be a single drive source operating on a common drive mechanism which synchronously tunes both halves simultaneously through exactly the same displacement.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of this invention to provide an antenna arrangement having substantially allthe ad-- vantages of the above-mentioned helix/cylinder-combh nation antenna, and that is independent of ground plane considerations and may, therefore, be mounted from a yardarm of a mast of a surface vessel, thus'eliminating the drawbacks of deck-mounted antenna arrangements.
It is another object of this invention to provide end-- to-end helix/cylinder type antennas electrically and cylinder type antennas arranged end-to-end inversely along a principal axis, and means arranged between said helix/cylinder type radiators for providing simultaneous synchronous tuning thereof to the same desired resonant frequency of operation from a common drive source.
Each radiator includes a like-wound helix arranged to have its longitudinal dimension along the principal axis and its one end proximate the common drive means, and a cylindrical capacitive portionalso arranged with its longitudinal dimension along the principal axis and having one end thereof proximate the associated helix. Shorting means of predetermined length are arranged to be movable inside each cylinder and helix pair and to be in continual contact therewith, for
' changing the resonant frequency of operation in accordance with a corresponding change in position of the shorting means along the principal axis.
A feature of this invention is that with the two legs or halves now employed in a dipole arrangement, twice as much power as heretofore realizable in the referenced prior art may be employed.
Another feature of the invention is the accuracy of the tuning; the tuning resettability being so accurate, in fact, that once the system has been calibrated it is unnecessary to apply RF power to resonate the antenna for tuning purposes. The arrangement may be preset to a desired frequency of operation.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above-mentioned and other objects and features of this invention will become better understood with reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1A is a schematic illustration of the prior art helix/cylinder type arrangement similar to the embodiments disclosed in the abovereferenced U.S. patent;
FIG. 1B is a chart of the current/voltage distribution along the antenna arrangement of FIG. 1A;
FIG. 2A is a schematic illustration of end-to-end helix/cylinder type antennas arranged in a /2-wave dipole configuration according to the invention;
FIG. 2B is a graph of the current/voltage distribution of the antenna arrangement of FIG. 2A, superimposed over the graphical distribution performance of the arrangement of FIG. 1A;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged schematic diagram of the arrangement of FIG. 2A giving additional detail; and
FIG. 4 is an enlarged partial sectional view of a preferred configuration of the spline drive/shorting tube portion of the antenna arrangement according to the invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The antenna arrangement according to the invention is an omnidirectional k-wave dipole, having an intended power rating of up to I KW, and an intended frequency range of 2-30 MHz, with a VSWR rating of less than 3:1. The arrangement comprises end-to-end modified helix/cylinder type antennas similar to that described in the referenced U.S. patent, and that shown in the prior art illustration of FIG. 1A.
The radiator according to FIG. 1A essentially comprises a conductive helix 1 and a conductive cylinder 2 arranged so as to permit this combination to be electrically tuned to specific frequencies. Tuning is accomplished through varying the effective inductance of the helix in relation to the capacitance of the cylinder by shorting out or electrically eliminating helix turns by way of a movable shorting bar 4- of fixed length. Power is fed to the antenna through a tap 5 discretely positioned or adjusted so as to produce the desired matching impedance with the transmission line 6. Through the additional use of a grounding switch 7, the antenna can be tuned, for example, over a frequency range of 2 to 30 MHz with standing wave ratios below 3 to I. As illustrated, the lower portion of the arrangement in FIG. IA is housed, for example, in the mast 8 of a submarine.
The desired tuning characteristics are thus derived by selecting the proper position of the shorting' element 4 by remote control means, and the proper setting of the grounding switch 7. More specifically, the shorting element 4 is driven or moved to a select position by a controlled electric motor (not shown), and held there. This position corresponds to the desired operating frequency and will have been determined for instance by a precalibrated digital readout on the front panel of a control unit (also not shown).
FIG. 13 represents the current/voltage distribution along the radiator arrangement ofFIG. 1A. In FIG. 1B, the abscissa represents magnitude and the ordinate the actual longitudinal displacement along the FIG. 1A ra diator. It is to be noted that the highest voltages are present at the cylindrical portion 2 of the antenna and the highest currents at the impedance matching tap point 5 on the helix 1. Also the current and voltage reach practically a steady-state situation along the greater length of the cylindrical portion 2 of the antenna.
Using the above-described arrangement, a suitable antenna can be configured to operate in a id-and %-W3Ve mode both for transmitting and receiving. However, this configuration, especially if it is sized to handle higher power for transmission, lends itself only to deck mounting in shipboard use.
If this circuitry were expanded to comprise the equivaient of two antennas mounted inversely end-to'end, it would become ground independent and could therefore become a yardarm-mounted antenna rather than a deck-mounted antenna. Such an arrangement is illustrated in FIG. 2A, with its corresponding current/voltage distribution graph given in FIG. 2B. As is also the case in the arrangement of FIG. 3, the illustrated configuration in FIG. 2A is depicted in a vertical orientation.
Two helix/cylinder type antennas It) and 20 are arranged end-to-end and physically separated by a common drive means 30 for providing synchronous tuning of the poles to the desired operating frequency. The arrangmeent is structurally oriented parallel to a ships mast (not shown), in being suspended at 32 from a yardarm 31 of that mast, by way of the housing or casing of the common drive means 30. The signal input to the antenna arrangement is at 33, shown as a coaxial input.
FIG. 28 illustrates the current/voltage distribution of each leg or half of the antenna arrangement of FIG. 2A. The solid lines depict respectively the IN distribution along the end-to-end inversely arranged radiators, while the dot-dashed lines depict, by comparison, the IN distribution of the lone radiator of FIG. 1A. To be particularly noted in the upper portion of FIG. 2B is the fact that for the same power applied to both antenna arrangements (FIG. 1A and FIG. 2A), the maximum magnitudes of I and E in one leg of the FIG. 2A arrangement are roughly half that of the FIG. 1A arrangement, while the latter also has associated therewith steeper l and E slopes or gradients, thus illustrating the greater electrical stress on the single helix/cylinder arrangement.
In becoming a 4i-wave dipole, rather than a ,4i-wave monopole, the individual antenna elements may become lighter in construction since the power will now be equally shared over two symmetrical configurations and components will operate under generally less electrical stress for the antennas equivalent power rating.
One common tuning drive, housed within the mounting case, mechanically synchronizes both poles to the required operating frequency.
Since a high powered antenna presents a radiation hazard to personnel, it is highly desirable to remove it from deck level to a remote location. Moreover, the removal of the antenna/tuner combination from the deck to upper mast and superstructure level is also highly desirable since deck space is always at a premium. The proposed inventive /z-wave dipole offers the capability for such yardarm installation for both receiving and transmitting antenna considerations.
FIG. 3 illustrates again the end-to-end arrangement of two helix/ cylinder type antennas, indicated generally as and 20, intercoupled by common drive means 30 arranged therebetween, indicated generally at 30. RF coaxial input (or output) 33 couples signal energy, through the wall of the antenna mount and casing 38 to a common feed point 39 by way of center conductor 33a, at which common feed point the power is essentially equally divided to be fed to tap feed points 15, 25 of the respective helix/cylinder antennas 10, 20. While not particularly shown other than schematically by way of an arrow, the tap points 15, 25 are adjustable up and down the respective helices 1 1, 21, in order to establish the best possible impedance match with the input 33. It is intended that RF transmission line 33 run along the yardarm 31. Preferably, taps and 25 are adjustably controlled by a common means, either automatically by remote-control switching or otherwise; and that with the adjustment of one there is provided a simultaneous and equal adjustment of the other. It is well within the scope of this invention, however, that the individual setting of taps 15 and 25 may be by hand and separate. Moreover, provision may be made in conjunction with the discretely-stepped adjustment of switching taps to finely control the impedance match in vernier fashion with the continuous adjustment caused by the motordriven insertiona and withdrawl of a dielectric tuning slug 9 within the helix turns below the input tap, as shown in FIG. 1A. With the inclusion of the tuning slug element 9, an improvement in VSWR has been experienced in the order of 2:1.
To the horizontally arranged yardarm 31 of a ships mast (not shown) is coupled or clamped, by way of member 32, the antenna mount and casing 38 of the common drive means 30 arranged between the radiating halves of the antenna arrangement. This casing 38 houses a remotely controllable drive motor 34 which reversibly drives a common drive gear 35, which is mounted to the shaft 34a of motor 34 by way of gear backing 35a. Common drive gear 35 meshes with identical bevel gears 36 and 37 arranged to be at right angles with common gear 35 as shown, and to be driven in the respective directions illustrated by arrows 36b, 37b responsive to a rotation of the common gear 35 indicated by arrow 35b under the control of motor 34. Both bevel gears 36, 37 have backings 36a, 37a by way of which they are mountable to respective dielectric drive shafts 16 and 26. From the indicated rotation of bevel gears 36 and 37, dielectric drive shafts l6 and 26 respectively turn in the direction indicated by arrows 16a and 17a. Such a rotation of shafts 16 and 26 is intended to cause an outward movement (away from the common drive means) of shorting tubes 14, 24 respectively arranged about dielectric shafts 16, 26 and coupled thereto at least at one end by way of drive splines 17, 27.
This movement may be seen in substantially greater detail from the enlarged illustration in FIG. 4. Springloaded grooved rollers 41, mounted in the brush and guide hub portion 40 of the shorting tube 14, 24 ride on the helix 11, 21, the latter being shown mounted in a cylindrical-shaped, helically grooved mandrel 42, as the shorting tube rotates. This imparts a vertical thrust and movement to the shorting tube 14, 24 as it slides axially along the rotating spline drive shaft 16, 26. As shown, both the shorting brush 14a, 24a and the grooved roller 41 are spring-loaded mounted; a conductor 43 leads from the brush 14a, 24a to the body of the brush and guide portion 40 of the shorting tube 14, 24. FIG. 4 also shows the spline drive shaft 16, 26 as having a triangular example cross-section, indicated at 44. The arrangement of course causes the shorting tube 14, 24 and brush and guide hub 40 to rotate via this rotating shaft. At each end of the shorting tubes 14, 24 is a shorting brush 14a, 14b and 24a, 24b. Preferably, the drive spline associative to each shorting tube may be part of one of the shorting brushes. With the arrangement of the shafts 16, 26 and the shorting tubes 14, 24 inside the respective helix of each leg or half 10, 20 of the antenna arrangement, there is provided by way of motor 34 simultaneous synchronous variation of the position of the shorting tubes 14, 24 in like amount, thus changing the resonant frequency of operation in each leg 10, 20 equally. This is effected in that the two shorting brushes at each end of the shorting tubes are continuously in contact with the conductive and capacitive elements respectively of the associated helix/cylinder antenna, i.e., the shorting brush 24a of shorting tube 24 is, for example, in continual internal contact with the turns of the helix 21 of antenna portion 20, while the shorting brush 24b at the other end of tube 24 is continually in contact with the interior of the capacitive portion or cylinder 22, the counterpart of which in antenna 10 is cylinder 12. It is contemplated that since helices ll, 21 and capacitive portions 12, 22 are substantailly circular in cross-section and constant in profile, the faces of brushes 14a, 14b and 24a, 24b would readily be formed to provide intimate contact with their associated contact surfaces. It is to be noted that helices ll, 21 may be either left or right hand wound, but they are both to be wound the same way.
The helices ll, 21 are entirely arranged in respective dielectric radome sections 13, 23 with the cylinder capacitive portions 12-22 being arranged at the end of these dielectric radome portions 13-23. Provision may also be made for further capacitance associative to portions 12 and 22 by way of the addition of supplementary capacitive pieces 18, 28, which take the form of discs or spherical segments (not shown) mounted to the freeend of each cylinder 12, 22 in such a way as to form a corona cap capable of preventing electrical discharge from the capacitive member to space.
lri order that'simultaneous equal tuning of each half of the antenna arrangement may be effected, the two helices 11 and 21 and the two cylinders 12 and 22 should be constructed as nearly alike as possible. This means ideally that helices 11 and 21 should be of common material and have the same number of turns, the same turn pitch throughout, mounted on common insulating material, and be arranged the same distance from the center of the common drive means 30. Achievement, however, of near-ideal configuration is not a matter of considerable difficulty in the present state of the art. Likewise, cylinders 12 and 22 should be of common material and have substantially the same physical dimensions and position, yielding closely similar capacitances for a particular setting of shorting tubes 14, 24.
In the arrangement of FIG. 3, it may be appreciated that continued rotation of dielectric shafts 16, 26 in the directions indicated by arrows 16a, 26a will eventually enable the shorting tubes 14 and 24 to reach their outermost extended positions, which corresponds to the lowest frequency of operation of the antenna arrangement. in this setting, none or practically none of the helix turns are shorted out or rendered electrically irrelevant. Similarly with the shorting tubes 14, 24 at their respective innermost positions (approaching the tap feed points 15, 25), there is derived the highest frequency of operation.
In the above there has been described a substantial extension in the antenna art representing a solution of a long-recognized problem. Two frequency adjustable helix/cylinder type antennas have been arranged inversely end-to-end to provide a %-wave dipole antenna arrangement that is entirely ground plane independent. The end-to-end sections are arranged on a principal axis about a common drive means which, while providing the main structural support of the antenna arrangement, provides common drive synchronous equal tuning of both legs of the antenna arrangement.
While the principles of this invention have been described in connection with specific apparatus, it is to be understood that this description is made only by way of example and not as a limitation to the scope of the invention as set forth in the objects and features thereof and in the accompanying claims.
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1. A /2wave dipole antenna arrangement comprising a frequency-adjustable helix/cylinder type antennas arranged end-to-end inversely along a principal axis, and means arranged between said helix/cylinder radiators for providing simultaneous synchronous tuning thereof to the same desired resonant frequency of operation from a common drive source; and wherein each said helix/cylinder radiator includes a like-wound helix arranged to have its longitudinal dimension along said principal axis and one end thereof proximate said com mon drive means, a cylindrical capacitive portion also arranged with its longitudinal dimension along said principal axis and having one end thereof proximate the other end of the associated heiix, and shorting means of predetermined length arranged to be movable inside the associated cylindrical capacitive portion and helix and to be in continual contact therwith, for changing the resonant frequency of operation in accordance with a corresponding change in position of said shorting means along said principal axis.
2. The antenna arrangement according to claim 1 wherein said common drive tuning means includes means for securing the antenna arrangement to a ships mast structure.
3. The antenna arrangement according to claim 1 wherein said common drive means further includes an antenna mount and casing assembly to which are mounted the end-to-end inversely arranged helix/cylinder radiators.
4. The antenna arrangement according to claim 3 wherein said common drive means further includes, in side said mount and casing assembly, a remotely controllable motor controlling a common drive gear by way of the drive shaft of the former, said common drive gear being in mesh arrangement with a pair of bevel gears arranged to be facing each other and positioned at right angles to said common drive gear, the combined drive motor and gear arrangement providing simultaneous synchronous adjustment of the resonant frequency of each radiator.
5. The antenna arrangement according to claim 4 further comprising a radome portion surrounding the helix of each radiating half of the antenna arrangement, which randome portions each communicate at one end thereof with the mount and easing assembly of said common drive means.
6. The antenna arrangement according to claim 4 wherein said bevel gears are mounted on respective dielectric drive shafts communicating with said adjustable shorting means associated therewith for adjusting the resonant frequency of operation.
7. The antenna arrangement according to claim 6 wherein each said shorting means comprises a metallic shorting tube of substantially right cylindrical shape and having at each end a coaxially mounted discshaped shorting brush extension for providing said continual contact respectively with said cylindrical capacitive portion and said helix associated therewith.
8. The antenna arrangement according to claim 7 wherein said dielectric shafts communicate with said respective shorting means by way of at least one drive spline arrangement arranged on said shorting tubes.
9. The antenna arrangement according to claim 8 wherein said drive spline arrangement of each said shorting tube is included as part of one of said discshaped shorting brushes.
10. The antenna arrangement according to claim 1 wherein RF signal energy is coupled between the antenna arrangement and an RF transmission line by way of a coaxial connection mounted through a side of the antenna mount and casing assembly of said common drive means, said coaxial connection being electrically coupled to a common feed point whereat the signal energy divides to be fed to each radiating half of the antenna arrangement.
11. The antenna arrangement according to claim 10 wherein the divided signal energy is fed to the respective helix portions of the two radiating halves of the antenna arrangement by way of respective adjustable taps, arranged to be movable along the helix associated therewith in a selection of a particular helix turn to structure arranged nearby.
13. The antenna arrangement according to claim 1 further including a dielectric slug tuning means, movably arranged to be inserted in the axially direction into the end of the helix portion of each said helix/cylinder radiator nearest said common tuning means, for finely controlling impedance match of the antenna arrangement in vemier fashion through continuous adjustment capability.
|Cited Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Mar 8, 1930
|May 30, 1933
|Meyer Raymond B
|Antenna system
|Aug 21, 1969
|Nov 23, 1971
|Chu Associates
|Balanced tunable helical monopole antenna
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Mar 22, 1974
|Aug 26, 1975
|Helical antenna with improved temperature characteristics
|Jul 24, 1975
|Jun 1, 1976
|Middlemark Marvin P
|Elongated television receiving antenna for indoor use
|Dec 23, 1975
|Dec 21, 1976
|International Telephone And Telegraph Corporation
|Plural antennas on common support with feed line isolation
|Dec 24, 1975
|Dec 21, 1976
|International Telephone And Telegraph Corporation
|High power, high-frequency, high-voltage drive coupling for an antenna
|Nov 23, 1979
|May 18, 1982
|Toia Michael J
|Coaxially fed dipole antenna
|Mar 29, 1982
|Apr 10, 1984
|Motorola, Inc.
|Helical antenna structure capable of resonating at two different frequencies
|Dec 22, 1982
|Mar 12, 1985
|Motorola, Inc.
|Coaxial dipole antenna with extended effective aperture
|Nov 4, 1983
|Oct 28, 1986
|Joaquin Bel Moratalla
|Tunable antenna with variable series L-C network
|Sep 23, 1991
|Dec 28, 1993
|Allied-Signal Inc.
|Adjustable helical antenna for a VHF radio
|Jun 21, 1996
|Jan 6, 1998
|Yankielun; Norbert E.
|Multi-band, variable, high-frequency antenna
|Sep 23, 1992
|Apr 1, 1993
|Allied-Signal, Inc.
|Adjustable helical antenna for a vhf radio
|U.S. Classification
|343/709, 343/885, 343/822, 343/823, 343/895, 343/792
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Apr 22, 1985
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Fun house for large groups.
There is a large kitchen with everything you need. A nice dining area.
All the rooms are spacious and clean with nice linens and comforters.
. The outside is the best. Firepit, horse shoes, volleyball, air hockey...........relaxing and private! Shut the gate to make it even more private.
The house is centrally located to everything. 20 minutes to the airport, 12 minutes to glacier park, 5 min. to the reservoir, 2 miles to the grocery store, restaurants, gift shops..........Perfect house for snowmobilers. Hungry Horse reservoir is 3 miles away, forest service roads 1/4 mile from house. Lots of parking space
Keywords: Perfect for large groups. Spacious yard to sit and watch all activities. Awesome firepit for evening campfires, millions of stars to gaze at. Big groups love this place.. Can sleep up to 12
I have lived in the Glacier Park area for 26 years.
amy rex purchased this house in 2000
this property is great for reunions and people who want space. Lots of outdoor seating with 2 picnic tables.
Fully furnished with DVDs, Games, Puzzles, and Books. If you have kids, the yard is completely fenced in, It is so quiet and tranquil on the front porch. You can hear the creek which is across the street.
A wonderful home to come back to after a long day out and about. We were a group of 11, all over 18. We never once felt crowded or that we were fighting for space. The location is perfect if you want to explore Glacier as well as the surrounding communities. The house was clean and had everything you need. It also had a great fire pit that could be enjoyed.
We thoroughly enjoyed renting this large home for our 3 family group....total of 6 adults, 5 teens and one pre-teen - everyone had enough space and there were great common areas to hang-out. We absolutely LOVED the porch, spent many a morning just sipping coffee, evenings we had wonderful dinners....just fabulous.
We also really appreciated the extras - badminton got a work out, we did a few camp fires, the massage chair was much appreciated (especially after long hikes in Glacier...), and we used the kayaks frequently.
A number of members of our party love to cook and we found the kitchen to be quite well equipped for our culinary adventures.
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful property, Amy! If we are back in the area with a large group we would love to rent this property again.
My family stayed in this beautiful and spacious home and will recoomend to friends who are headed that way. Close to everything you need, yet off the beaten path, so very quiet location. The kids enjoyed volleyball and badminton, along with challenging us all to air hockey. The only problem we had was the fact that we had to leave. The house is cozy and comfortable.
I love the fact that Amy was upfront about problems with WiFi...not her fault as it is the provider, but we did not head that way to connect with the internet so it was no problem for us.
If we come and stay here again with more people, we may look into renting the smaller cabin on the property as well.
The host Amy is very nice accomodating and great to work and communicate with!
We had a wonderful stay at this unique log and stone home. Very spacious with plenty of beds and bathrooms! We were there during a heatwave, but the home stayed comfortably cool - especially the first floor living/kitchen area. And we enjoyed sitting on the side porch in the afternoons and evenings. Well located for touring the west side of Glacier NP, and quick access to towns to the west. We enjoyed the peace and quiet of the country location, while only being a couple of miles from the grocery store.
We had a wonderful stay for 5 nights. We traveled as a large group of 2 families and had plenty of space for all of us. The location was perfect, as we spent much of our time exploring Glacier National Park, just a short drive away.
this house is located 1 mile from hwy 2 on a paved county road. There is a tall wood privacy fence surrounding the property on one acre. There is also a gate you can shut to make it more private. There is also a small cabin on the other side of the property that I rent as a vacation rental. It is available for $90/nt as long as you are renting this house with it.
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Riding the Magic Carpet
A Surfer's Odyssey to Find the Perfect Wave
By Tom Anderson
Summersdale Publishers LtdCopyright © 2006 Tom Anderson
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Taking Off
Are we in Durban or Alcatraz, man?' asked the Kiwi standing next to me. 'Look at this place! What are we doing?'
'It's the beginning of something.'
'It's a prison, man.'
'No, it's a start.'
Although there were still over a thousand kilometres left to travel, J-Bay already felt close. Nine thousand down, one thousand to go. But before that, two crucial months of 'preparation' on the Golden Mile of Durban beach breaks that starts at South Beach and continues to the Snake Park. Here was where it would begin; 'Alcatraz', or was it some characterless backpacker hostel a few blocks in from Dairy Beach? You just can't tell in South Africa, the land of the reinforced door, window, gate, car – whatever it is, they'll easily make it burglar-, hijacker- and rapist-proof. Functional perhaps, but none too settling when you have to negotiate two perimeter fences just to arrive at the reception of the first place you plan to stay for the night. Were those the demented drawings of a 'lifer' surrounding the window bars above the pool table and being trespassed upon by an unfriendly cockroach? No, it was simply the usual cartoon drawings of 'The Big Five' that signalled one's arrival in the fragmented reality of the southern African backpacker circuit. Either way, it was only a start, and, I was hoping, a brief one at that. It was time to go for a walk, find the waves – oh, and an apartment too.
The Kiwi standing at the counter of 'Banana Backpackers' with me was Adam. Another fresh arrival in Durban and, given the accent and tightly clutched boardbag, proof I was in the right building. The main difference between us, though, was that Adam had already been to J-Bay. His attempt to surf the world's best right-hand point had already failed. He'd hired a car, driven up from Cape Town, missed the season, missed any rare off-season action too, missed the essence of J-Bay, and now he was counting out the last weeks until his flight back to 'home' and 'work' (words of serious consequence, judging from the way he mimed the inverted commas with his fingers).
'J-Bay was nothing like what I'd expected, man,' he rued. 'It was sunny, dead flat, boring. I was sitting there going, Where the fuck does it break, man? I can't even tell. The point doesn't look very long, does it? Are you sure this is J-Bay? But it was, and there was nothing I could do about it, man. I was sitting there, praying. Praying for a freak swell. But with all that calm, I just knew it was never gonna happen. Gutted. I'm spewing, man.'
Sunny, calm and flat? Not the J-Bay I'd read about, heard about, and hoped to find. The J-Bay I wanted to experience was a place where harsh elements combined to make one of the most spectacular forces of nature a surfer could ever dream of seeing in person. Jeffrey's Bay: the fantasy. The myth. The legend. The history.
Adam continued. 'I'm coming back, though. I'm gonna do it right – get the season, man. Like you are now. You bastard. Where are you from anyway? As long as you don't run out of money, or get killed, you're definitely, one hundred per cent gonna have surfed J-Bay by the time you leave. It kicks off around April, man. You bastard! Any natural-foot who doesn't dream of surfing there must be a sissy. Or at least in need of having his head seriously read, man.'
Phew! That meant I was free from the need for any appointments with a shrink for the time being. Yes, indeed; what natural-foot serious about surf travel wouldn't dream of making a pilgrimage to that little stretch of coastline just beyond Humansdorp? This trip for me had begun over ten years ago, with a decision. A promise. An oath. Thou shalt surf J-Bay once thou hast grown old enough to travel there and once thou surfest good enough to make it count. And how best to make it count? By going there early in the season, before the hungry masses, before the Association of Surfing Professionals brought its circus into town for June's Billabong Pro, and, most importantly of all, not after a winter of eating fish 'n' chips and drinking heavy beer back in Wales. So this was the start. The start of a meticulous plan. Two months in Durban training, then the final journey. This was going to be done properly.
'All I've got to look forward to is a fucken stint in this Alcatraz shit-hole,' my new acquaintance went on. 'Oh well, at least we might get some swell. Hey man, have you heard what Durban gets like in cyclone season? Fuck man, let's go check it. I think the breaks are down that road, that way. You up for it? Mind you, it's meant to be flat at the moment. Nothing out there. Worth looking, though, just in case ...' Adam paused for a second, completing a thought pattern before making up his mind: 'Aw, fuck it. Come on then, man. Let's go and check the surf.' He seemed a highly-strung character, but at least he was keen to get in the water.
The Golden Mile was indeed about three blocks away, as the frantic New Zealander had predicted, although those three blocks hardly contained the kind of Manhattan-esque splendour that the term 'Golden Mile' may have implied. First impressions were of a grubby city, filled with old, poorly maintained buildings and a spirit-crushing humidity that was as far removed from beach life as you could ever hope to imagine. Faces showed the air of economic depression, as the once mighty South African rand dropped more and more in value. Fast-food buildings, shops and offices derelict, as if the heat had evaporated the finances and the tramps driven out all the businessmen. Compared to the bumper-to-bumper traffic of most major cities, the roads were depressingly quiet. The bubble had burst for this once wealthy port town, as was the case for most other post-European-colonisation ventures – a bully that had lost its clout.
The depression gave way, though, as we arrived at the beachfront and that familiar breeze kicked in – the beaches were the city's main hope for a brighter future. More like it, I thought. It looked little more than your average stretch of Indian Ocean-facing beach. Three piers, one jetty and a fifth groyne of rotten wooden pilings. But looks can be deceiving. This particular stretch is home to some of the most high-performance surfing on earth. Few spots are surfed as efficiently on a day-to-day basis as the peaks at Durban's New Pier and North Beach. Good surfing is in the air, the water, the food. You cannot avoid catching the virus. If they weren't so unfairly disadvantaged by the fiendishly low value of the rand, a fair proportion of these guys would probably be pro surfers, known well beyond the confines of this one province. And why not? It has the perfect incubation conditions for surf talent. A stifling city on the beach, warm water, consistent surf of all varieties – big and small, messy and clean. Add to that the crowded, competitive line-ups, right in the heart of a nation that lives for sport, and it's easy to see why Natal surfing is so revered.
'What a load of shit that looks like,' said Adam surveying the small peak inside of New Pier, known as the 'Dairy Bowl' to the school kids who were quietly using it to turn themselves into some of the hottest surfers on the planet. It was breaking at about waist-height, and trickling along a sandbar that was absolutely crammed with jostling surfers. 'I'd heard it's been flat for a while,' he went on. 'What a bummer.'
If you want to see flat, come and see South Wales in summer, I felt like saying, but kept schtum.
We watched it for about ten minutes. There weren't huge numbers of waves coming through, but the odd one looked rideable. Adam was unimpressed. Then a slightly bigger set came through, each wave being picked off and torn to shreds by youngsters in peak condition. 'This'll do fine,' I mumbled to myself. 'Just fine.'
* * *
The right-hand point at Jeffrey's Bay, about an hour south of Port Elizabeth on South Africa's east coast, is one of the surfing world's most exciting finds, and from about the age of twelve it had been my life's purpose to one day surf there.
I'd had a surf-free first decade on this planet, doing just what most other Welsh kids do at that age; following an often hopeless (but occasionally brilliant) national rugby team and a better English football club. Even then my desire to do something just that bit different from the others was emerging – not necessarily the best of ideas when you go to a private school that is located, believe it or not, directly in the rough epicentre of Ely, Cardiff; a place where a low profile is key to survival – especially if you're one of the kids from the 'posh' school. Everyone in my class would wear either a Manchester United or Liverpool shirt on the charity nonuniform days, while I'd turn up dressed either in a shameful Watford strip (my birthplace, alas), a rebellious Arsenal one, or that of some obscure country like Uruguay, or, in soccer terms at least, the USA. Naturally, it all led to some severe piss-taking from my classmates – until the day I wore an Ocean Pacific surf T-shirt.
Surfing, I suddenly realised, could be a way out of being crap at football, and from supporting odd teams. Sod following the football and rugby crowd, I realised. It was time to become the first surfer in the class.
To be perfectly honest, the main reason for starting was because I figured my chances of being good at it were higher than in any other sport. The logic behind this was simple: my father had been a top competitive surfer in his day, and he too was crap at football – so genetically the odds were in my favour. Unlike a lot of people who claim to remember their first ride as a key moment in their life, I don't. I just remember following the old man down the walkway to the nearest beach in Ogmore-by-Sea time after time, until one day it was proclaimed that I could surf. Being still a child and able to ride waves automatically made you fairly good then, by Welsh standards at least. Back then there were about ten kids my age on the whole coast who stand-up surfed. I later came fifth out of five in the under-14 division of my first National Championships.
As time went on the 'sport' grew, and after I incurred a harsh and seemingly motiveless kicking walking from school to the bus-stop one day, my family decided it was time for a change. A decision was made to move closer to the beach, and I was duly enrolled in a new middle-class state school, Porthcawl Comprehensive. Here I was no longer the only one to 'have the surfing bug', although most of the others my age practised what we 'stand-ups' believed to be the lesser art of body boarding.
So I wasn't unique any more, but by then the bug had taken a firm hold, and other ambitions were setting in. News was filtering slowly into the marine-minded town of Porthcawl of two major events, interlinked: for years apartheid had led the sporting world to boycott South Africa; something most high-profile surfers had also observed. However, when on the night of 2 February 1990 it was announced on the Nine O'Clock News that the South African President, F. W. de Klerk, had unveiled his plans to dismantle the regime, it became 'open season' on the biggest find in the history of surf travel. Just over a week later Nelson Mandela walked free from prison, and word was out that Tom Curren was going to Jeffrey's Bay. Tom Curren was the surfer of the time. The artistic but highly competitive son of the charismatic Pat Curren, who hailed from the perfect Californian point breaks at Santa Barbara, was in the process of winning three world titles and changing the way people rode waves forever.
I'll never forget sitting there, still only a boy, watching Curren's first ride at J-Bay on the big screen in the function room of a Porthcawl pub. All the best local guys had made it down there that night, to watch the wave of the decade. It'll stay with me forever, seeing some of the top surfers in my area (they surfed as well as I imagined it was ever possible to) just losing it as they watched the first under-the-lip fade, gasping as Curren emerged from tube number two, and then screaming and erupting into applause as he dropped out of sight and into the section they call 'Impossibles'. It was fantasy. As distant a reality as Bollywood stardom must appear to the average Indian citizen. Hard to imagine that this 'wave', this mass of water so suited to surfing, actually existed; that Tom Curren was a real human being who had gone there and taken off on it; that he had been so in tune with the swell that he had ridden it that well on his first attempt. The best surfer of the time had just proven once and for all that South Africa did indeed have the world's most perfect wave.
As of that moment, there wasn't a schoolbook I possessed that was spared a daydream doodle of me surfing at J-Bay. I'd made a promise to myself that night, one that took nigh-on a decade to fulfil, and one that has shaped the life I now lead. Thou shalt one day go to J-Bay and surf it, and not only that, thou shalt go once thou art good enough and wise enough to really make the most of it and to MAKE IT COUNT. That was the creed that started my journey to the day when Jeffrey's Bay would line up a trademark 'Roaring Forties' swell in front of my very eyes.
This ambition, rather conveniently, involved doing my best to become both a decent surfer and an experienced traveller, and all of my energies were now focused on realising those goals. As a young child, travel had meant little more to me than nauseating car and plane journeys, but now the combination of changing schools and seeing the Curren film had sent my imagination haywire. It would wind up teachers, perhaps because some of them secretly knew that the obnoxious surfers in their classes were hell-bent on getting more from life than pie-charts and quadratic factorisation were ever likely to give them.
Obviously when you're in your early teens there is only so much travelling you can do, but parents in Porthcawl were usually pretty supportive of surfing. Travelling and staying with family friends, older surfers and the Welsh Junior Team, my friends and I had seen most of the UK's and Europe's surf shores, along with the odd trip further afield, by the time we had to consider our sixth-form options.
Some were using this as a stepping-stone to becoming great competitive surfers, and others just for spontaneous hedonism (which gave way to booze and weed as the later teens set in). For me, though, it was always about progressing to the day when I could travel to Jeffrey's Bay and make a real go of it. I'm not sure what the full set of reasons for this infatuation were – perhaps it was simply an excuse to surf and travel as much as possible, while still having some higher purpose ready for citing if needed. There's also a wanderlust gene in each of my parents. My father left school at sixteen to hitch-hike to Morocco, and used to live in San Francisco; my mother now lives in Toronto; and my first trip abroad was to Brazil at the age of eight to adopt a brother and sister.
No doubt there's an element of all of the above in the decisions I reached as a kid, and later stuck to as a young adult, but perhaps most important of all was the idea of progression. Unlike some other sports where you turn up, play, and either win or lose, surfing is all about progression – a series of personal goals and motives.
Slowly, by way of plenty of learning, a lot of pointless pleasure and the odd hiccup, a life can be forged this way. The one simple truth throughout this life is obvious. After that first ride of Tom Curren at J-Bay was filmed, a whole series of videos called The Search came out. One clip in particular will always stay with me. A seventeen-year-old delinquent from eastern Australia sits on a boat somewhere in deepest darkest Indonesia marvelling at the effects that getting chosen for a Search film has had on his life.
'What do you think of surfing?' the man behind the camera asks him.
'Pretty good.'
'Where would you be if you didn't surf?'
'Uh, mowing lawns?' You can tell from the tone it's obvious he really means it. This isn't meant to be funny.
'What has surfing taught you?'
'A lot.'
'A lot?'
'Yeah. More than any school ever could.'
Like I said, it's obvious.CHAPTER 2
Northern Scotland: Searching the Stromas
Everyone always says that the Scottish drink like fish. Whisky, whisky, beer, Glenfiddich. What about Jack Daniels? 'Dan Jackiels! It's fur girls, is a soft drink, isn't it?' I like a bit of whisky too. It gives you a lovely feeling of warmth. The blood tingles and the body feels alive. The veins light up. No Jack Daniels, eh? Well, just chuck us a glass of that one there then, mate. Straight, with no ice. That seems like the only way to take it up here. If Jack is for girls then I'm not asking for Coke.
All the walls in Orkney are very thick. The slates on all roofs are cemented down – thoroughly. There are no trees, not one, anywhere. The air is so clean it stings your lungs. You can see orca whales daily. The islands lie on the same latitude as Alaska. There is a town called Twatt.
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Source On Lance: 'He's On (Mavs) Radar'
The story of Lance Stephenson and a connection with the Dallas Mavericks is actually three different stories, stories that deserve to be told from three different perspectives.
To wit:
Perspective 1: The 10-Foot Pole
This has undeniably been Dallas' long-standing position on the Pacers' gifted-but-off-kilter guard. It dates back to May 6, when DB.com first wrote the story using that "10-foot-pole'' phrase.
Now, along with that phrase -- signifying the distance Dallas planned to keep from Stephenson -- we wrote this:
Could "The Culture of Dirk'' repair these problems? Could the mentorship of coach Rick Carlisle, who has had such a positive impact on guys like Monta Ellis, do the same? And how many millions do you wish to bet on that outcome?
Nevertheless, our implication was clear: While Dallas could blow other bidders out of the water by making Lance "Dirk's heir'' in Dallas, money isn't the issue here. The controversial guard ha already turned down a five-year, $44-million contract from Indy (which has tiptoed toward moving on with its signing of C.J. Miles) contract, the two sides remain far apart on a deal, according to sources close to the situation.
If he thinks five years and $44 million is "low-balling'' him, what will he think if he lands in Dallas as a "bargain''? How disgruntled will he be as a potential All-Star being underpaid?
And yet Chris Broussard's Monday mention of Stephenson have "drawn interest from the Dallas Mavericks'' is true on some level. A source tells DallasBasketball.com:
"He's on the (Mavs') radar. He's always been on the radar.''
Perspective 2: The Culture of Dirk
The 6-5 Stephenson averaged a career-high 13.8 points, 7.2 rebounds and 4.6 assists last season. He led the league in triple-doubles. He is a defensive stopper. And at 23, he's just a kid. ... who made just $930,000 last season.
On-the-radar Stephenson becomes even more so assuming LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony don't sign with Dallas. (Here's the latest on Dallas and LeBron and here's the latest on Dallas and Melo.) Chandler Parsons, Luol Deng and Trevor Ariza are also on Dallas radar -- and figure more prominently than Lance does.
But beyond the dollars and cents and talent and availability, there is an issue of chemistry.
The Pacers, loaded in so many ways, collapsed from the inside-out in part because of issues in that locker room. There was a publicized conflict between Stephenson and Evan Turner. We are told there were conflicts between Stephenson and star Paul George. Now the conflict may exist between Stephenson and Larry Bird's front office.
And in a DB.com casual conversation with Dirk Nowitzki, he reveals some concern for making sure someone like Stephenson doesn't ruin Dallas' locker-room chemistry.
Dirk absolutely deserves a vote here; the responsibility for keeping his team pulling in the same direction has always largely fallen on his shoulders.
But, as one Mavs source tells me on the subject of Lance-as-knucklehead: "We've had worse.''
The Mavs are shooting for better; Chandler Parsons, for instance, happens to be a Dirk favorite. But yes. They've had worse.
Perspective 3: Rick Carlisle's milk
"(Stephenson) is immensely gifted,'' one Eastern Conference team scout tells us. "Any coach would be tempted to want to help him reach that ceiling.''
This is indeed how most coaches think. They are "fixers.''
Mavs coach Carlisle gave Delonte West a lot of rope before the end. The coach applauded DeShawn Stephenson for his loony nature. Rick worked hard to re-make the careers of O.J. Mayo two years ago and Monta Ellis last year. He truly looks at the positives of teaching and mentoring the likes of sleepy Sam Dalembert and pudgy Raymond Felton.
What if the Pacers' chemistry problem was their fault and not Stephenson's? Or what if it was Lance's immaturity, something a player can grow away from? In Indy, even in the playoffs, Stephenson demonstratively protested coaching decisions, defied team instructions in regard to how to deal with defending LeBron, and made a fool of himself by blowing in James' ear, an act as ineffective and it was inexplicable.
In Game 7 of Round 1, Lance actually approached the scorers' table in the middle of the game to inform them that they'd improperly shorted him one rebound for which he wanted credit.
This all is still a 10-foot pole away from happening, even with Lance assuredly "on the Mavs' radar.'' Don't Stephenson and Ellis play the same position? How close to the tax line will Indy be if they keep him? Are their concerns about Stephenson as a perimeter shooter and turnover machine? When other Deng/Ariza suitors lose out, won't Lance be elevated on their "radar,'' too?
It's instructional to know that while Rick Carlisle values "team'' above all else, Lance Stephenson's presence on Dallas' "radar'' may be tied to another Carlisle value.
"Listen,'' Rick will say, "you can't have a whole team made up of milk-drinkers.''
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