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Practical Antenna Handbook
Joseph J. Carr
McGraw-Hill, Paperback, 4th Bk&CD edition, Published June 2001, 608 pages, ISBN 0071374353
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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.

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“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.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Radio Broadcasting and Communications.
Chapter 2: Radio-wave Propagation.
Chapter 3: Transmission Lines.
Chapter 4: The Smith Chart.
Chapter 5: Fundamentals of Radio Antennas.
Chapter 6: High-Frequency Dipole and Other Doublet Antennas.
Chapter 7: Vertically Polarized HF Antennas.
Chapter 8: Multiband and Tunable-Wire Antennas.
Chapter 9: Longwire Directional Antennas.
Chapter 10: Hidden and Limited-Space Antennas.
Chapter 11: Directional Phased Vertical Antennas.
Chapter 12: Directional Beam Antennas.
Chapter 13: Antennas for Shortwave Reception.
Chapter 14: Large Wire Loop Antennas.
Chapter 15: Small Loop Receiving Antennas.
Chapter 16: Small Transmitting Loop Antennas.
Chapter 17: Antenna Modeling Software.
Chapter 18: VHF/UHF Transmitting and Receiving Antennas.
Chapter 19: Microwave Waveguides and Antennas.
Chapter 20: Antenna Noise Temperature.
Chapter 21: Antennas for Radio Astronomy.
Chapter 22: Adjusting, Installing and Troubleshooting Antennas and Transmission Lines.
Chapter 23: Antennas for Radio Direction Finding (RDF).
Chapter 24: Impedence Matching in Antenna Systems.
Chapter 25: Mobile, Emergency, Portable and Marine Antennas.
Chapter 26: Antennas for Low-Frequency Operation.
Chapter 27: Measurement and Adjustment Techniques.
Chapter 28: General Antenna Mechanical Construction Techniques.
Chapter 29: Grounding the Antenna: What is a Good Ground?



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