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First Draft
editThis is my first article on wikipedia. The purpose of which is to learn how to write one of these things.
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Cool... I'll work on it.
Second Draft
editThankful that someone rewrote parts of this... I learned alot from reading the changes. I rewrote more of the article to try and remove subjective biases.
I need to clean-up the references. There are 2 good articles out there that seem to mix information about W7DXX and W4MQ. So, thier citations need to be clarified. KB2LWS never published, so this one will be hard to source... will keep trying to find an article for vertification.
It is hopeful that other pioneers of IRB will recommend changes to this. I will review thier papers later and adapt a new draft using more of what they wrote. Frankly, this article is written from my perspective from the technology I developed... but the wording in this article will change, soon, to reflect other IRB work products. There are alot of inventive people out there... but this article is not meant to discuss every IRB implementation, rather, explain the state of the technology at the time it was first developed, its relevance today, its current state of the art, legal and social implications, and giving credit to pioneers.