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              Antentop 
                (from the issue) begin to publish antennas designed by Nick Kudryavchenko, 
                UR0GT.  
              No changes (compare to previous their publishing in 
                the Internet) are added to the description and MMANA files of 
                the antennas.  
                
              Some words about the history of the publication. 
                
              One year ago, in May 2008, I contacted with UR0GT by 
                e- mail and asked him about permission for publishing his antennas 
                design (translated in English in e-magazine AntenTop) that were 
                already posted by him in some forums in Russian. Nick answered 
                to me, since the stuff was already published in Russian and the 
                stuff were accessible to public in the internet, he did not mention 
                about my publishing the stuff in English. Nick conditions for 
                publishing were simple: must be indicated his authorship and antennas 
                MMANA files must be unchangeable.  
                
              However lots of antennas design of UR0GT (that were 
                published in the Internet forums) had very brief commentary. Sometimes 
                Nick posted in a forum just an antenna file (without any commentary). 
                Therefore I dared ask Nick to write some commentary to those files 
                and rework some antennas MMANA files. Nick answered to me that 
                he had no time at this summer and ever this autumn to do such 
                work but probably next winter (winter- 2009) he would try to do 
                this. So, we agreed to get in touch in the winter 2009. 
                
              To regret of all radio- amateurs Nick died at June 
                2008. Half of year left to his pension, where he planned to work 
                on his antennas and may be on his Antenna Book... Radio- amateurs 
                lost very talented antennas designer... 
                
              So, I decided to publish his antenna design like we 
                agreed with him before at his life, i.e. no changes added to his 
                antenna files and his commentaries.  
                
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