Bitech viper was my dads company so I know it more than most.
My dad developed the bite alarm due to delkim had the entire monopoly on bite alarms due to the way the patent was written which meant delkim made no real effects to improve the product even though your rod would fall off the thing.
my dad found a way around the patent to give people more of a choice and try to improve the product.
Due to this all happening Delkim started to make changes to try and stop there sales dropping.
eventually the patents ran out and enabled all the other companies to produce bite alarms.
My dad then went onto make good fishing alarms.
I remember this well mainly because of the threats he received from one very big fishing company which are still trading today and a name every fisherman knows and I still won’t buy anything with there name on even now.
Sorry about all the false alarms lol but really proud of what my dad achieved and going out of his way to try to make improvements and not letting the big boys bully him out off it.