Practical Antenna Handbook

The Antenna Builder's Bible - Updated and Better Than Ever!Design and construct your own antennas with step-by-step instructions and plans. Joseph J. Carr's Practical Antenna Handbook, Fourth Edition, is an update of the most popular book on antennas ever written. This empowering guide blends theoretical concepts that engineers need to design practical antennas with hard-learned lessons derived from actually building and using antennas — real antennas, not merely theoretical constructs on a blackboard. Certain to become the toolbox favorite of radio enthusiasts and professionals of all types, from technicians to citizen banders and shortwave listeners, it covers a wide variety of antennas: high-frequency dipole; vertically polarized HF; multiband and tunable wire; hidden and limited space; directional phased vertical and directional beam VHF/UHF transmitting and receiving; shortwave reception; microwave; and mobile, marine, and emergency. This state-of-the-art edition includes a new chapter on antenna modeling software and new coverage of small transmitting antennas and receiving loop antennas.

• Packaged with CD-ROM with antenna modeling software — including material on EZNEC for Windows 3.0.

"The Antenna Builder's Bible" - Revised, Updated, and Better Than Ever! The most popular book on antennas ever written and unquestionably the world's favorite antenna book, Joseph J. Carr's Practical Antenna Handbook, Fourth Edition is a treasure for anyone with an interest in antennas, from the newest of novices to the most experienced engineer. This empowering book gives you all kinds of projects — and it provides you with material that explains exactly why your creations were a success. But most importantly, it prepares you to design and construct your own antennas "for the cases" Carr modestly suggests "that the author thoughtlessly failed to cover." This fourth edition blends, in Joseph J. Carr's words, "the theoretical concepts that the engineers and others need to design practical antennas, and the hard-learned practical lessons derived from actually building and using antennas —real antennas, and the hard-earned practical lessons derived from actually building and using antennas — real antennas made of real metal — not merely theoretical constructs on a blackboard."

Add it to your library and it will no doubt assume a favorite spot inside your toolbox, dog-eared and annotated with your personal notes ... obviously used and enjoyed to the fullest extent. New! Added Material on:

• Small transmitting antennas
• Receiving loop antennas
• Antenna modeling software — including material on EZNEC for Windows 3.0

Covers a Wide Variety of Antennas:

• High-frequency dipole
• Vertically polarized HF
• Multiband and tunable wire
• Hidden and limited space
• Directional phased vertical and directional beam VHF/UHF transmitting and receiving
• Shortwave reception
• Microwave
• Mobile, marine, and emergency
• And much more

Great For:

• Radio and electronics technicians
• Amateur radio operators
• Citizen banders
• Shortwave listeners (SWL)
• Monitoring hobbyists
• Radio enthusiasts and professionals of all types

Contents

• Introduction to the Fourth Edition
• 1 Introduction to Radio Broadcasting and Communications 1
• 2 Radio-wave Propagation 5
• 3 Transmission Lines 59
• 4 The Smith Chart 95
• 5 Fundamentals of Radio Antennas 123
• 6 High-Frequency Dipole and Other Doublet Antennas 141
• 7 Vertically Polarized HF Antennas 173
• 8 Multiband and Tunable-Wire Antennas 203
• 9 Longwire Directional Antennas 213
• 10 Hidden and Limited-Space Antennas 231
• 11 Directional Phased Vertical Antennas 245
• 12 Directional Beam Antennas 255
• 13 Antennas for Shortwave Reception 271
• 14 Large Wire Loop Antennas 287
• 15 Small Loop Receiving Antennas 299
• 16 Small Transmitting Loop Antennas 319
• 17 Antenna Modeling Software 327
• 18 VHF/UHF Transmitting and Receiving Antennas 339
• 19 Microwave Waveguides and Antennas 369
• 20 Antenna Noise Temperature 417
• 21 Antennas for Radio Astronomy 421
• 22 Adjusting, Installing, and Troubleshooting Antennas and Transmission Lines 433
• 23 Antennas for Radio Direction Finding (RDF) 439
• 24 Impedence Matching in Antenna Systems 457
• 25 Mobile, Emergency, Portable, and Marine Antennas 479
• 26 Antennas for Low-Frequency Operation 501
• 27 Measurement and Adjustment Techniques 515
• 28 General Antenna Mechanical Construction Techniques 543
• 29 Grounding the Antenna: What Is a Good Ground? 573
• Index 583