Practical Antenna Handbook 5/e - Softcover

Carr, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071639586 ISBN 13: 9780071639583

Verlag: McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

THE DEFINITIVE ANTENNA REFERENCE--FULLY REVISED AND EXPANDED!

Design and build your own antennas with the help of this unique guide. Updated and revised to provide clear answers to questions frequently asked by hobbyists and electronics technicians, Practical Antenna Handbook , Fifth Edition blends theoretical concepts with hands-on experience--requiring only high school mathematics

Reorganized to flow logically from broad physical principles to specific antenna design and construction techniques, the book begins by covering the fundamentals. Then the half-wave dipole is discussed both as an excellent antenna in its own right and as a conceptual tool for predicting the performance of other designs. Transmission line impedance matching techniques--and a companion Smith chart tutorial--lead into "must have" accessories for tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting antenna system performance. Other tools, such as antenna modeling software and network analyzer add-ons for PCs and Macs, are addressed, and concluding chapters offer fresh insights into support structures and installation techniques.

NEW TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE:

Characteristics of all-driven and parasitic arrays
Beverages and small MF/HF receiving loops
Top-loaded shunt-fed towers and other verticals
Theory and design of Yagi beams
Effect of real ground on propagation and antenna patterns, impedance, and efficiency
Lightning protection and four kinds of ground systems
Zoning and restrictive covenants

COVERS A WIDE VARIETY OF ANTENNAS:

Dipoles and inverted-Vs
Quads, delta, and NVIS loops
Wire arrays (bobtail curtain, half-square, rhombic)
Verticals and shunt-fed towers
Rotatable Yagi beams
MF/HF receiving antennas (flag, pennant, K9AY, Beverage)
Mobile and portable antennas
VHF/UHF/microwave antennas
And many more

GO TO WWW.MHPROFESSIONAL.COM/CARR5 FOR:
Tables of worldwide geographic coordinates and antenna dimensions vs. frequency Supplier updates Author's blog Additional photographs and schematics Links to tutorials and specialized calculators

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joseph Carr was a military electronics technician and the author of several popular electronics books, including McGraw-Hill’s Secrets of RF Design, Third Edition and Old Time Radios! Restoration and Repair. He wrote a monthly column for Nuts & Volts magazine.

George W. (Bud) Hippisley, W2RU, earned his BSEE degree from MIT, and was formerly chief operating officer for a major supplier of electronics to the cable TV industry. A long-time active amateur radio operator who has won or ranked nationally in many competitive on-the-air operating events, he has given talks on the basics of antennas and ionospheric propagation to radio clubs and other groups for more than 35 years.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill/Tab Electronics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0071639586
• ISBN 13: 9780071639583
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 784
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar