The ARRL Antenna Book
by American Radio Relay League (ARRL) · first published 1955
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Why HN recommends it
Practical reference for designing and building antennas, with advice on building them cheaply. It serves as a starting place for both amateur radio and general antenna theory.
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In this book, you will find all of the information you need for complete antenna systems--from planning, to design and construction.
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on “Welcome to the World of Software Defined Radio” ↗The ARRL Antenna Book is pretty good: http://www.amazon.com/ARRL-Antenna-Book-22nd-Softcover/dp/08...
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on “Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?” ↗You might start at the ARRL's Antennas page [0] and consider the ARRL Antenna Book [1]. Most of that is aimed at amateur radio in particular but the theory is the same. There's tons of free and/or open-source software (of varying quality) for modeling antennas and such as well. [0]:…
on “Simple Wi-Fi Yagi (2014)” ↗…dimensions out of copper sheet, for comparison, and also compares with simulated results. Antenna design used to be a black art, but now there are software tools to help with design and evaluation. The ARRL Antenna Book has good advice on how to build antennas cheaply. [1] http://www.antennamagus.com/blog/593/pringles-cantenna-measu...
on “Rebuilding, Testing and Documenting Self-Made Wi-Fi Antennas” ↗Additionally, the ARRL Antenna Book is a great resource: https://www.arrl.org/arrl-antenna-book
on “50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2” ↗…NEC2-family solvers do "method of moments", where each wire is chopped up into segments, and then for an N-segment model, an NxN matrix of mutual inductances models the coupling among wire segments. The ARRL Antenna Book takes more time to explain fundamentals than the Handbook. The ARRL also publishes an antenna physics book that I haven't read. I notice that PhD committee chair for the author of the Antenna Theory…
on “Antenna Theory (2016)” ↗