Practical Antenna Handbook

# Joe Carr (Falls Church, VA) is a retired military electronics technician and a popular electronics author. He is the author of McGraw-Hill's Secrets of RF Design, 2e and writes a monthly column for Nuts & Volts magazine.



Table of 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?