An Exploration of the Art of Antenna Design By Brian Cake, KF2YN.

A Rarely Presented View of Antenna Design; From Imagination to Aluminum

The ARRL Antenna Designer’s Notebook is certain to open a window into the mind of the antenna designer as the design is imagined, perfected, and finally constructed. This book provides a thorough description of new components of antennas–such as the FZ element and the C-pole–and practical antennas made from them.

Explore the details of an improved tunable HF loop, theoretical analyses of linear loading and ground losses, and practical designs for beams and omnidirectional antennas.

CD-ROM included with EZNEC models for all the antennas in the book plus a bonus presentation on Boxkite Yagi antennas.

Contents:

• Long Yagi Antennas
• Improving the Gain of Single-Boom Yagis
• The Boxkite Yagi
• Dual-Band Boxkite Yagis for VHF and UHF
• Single-Band High-Performance Boxkite Yagis
• Boxkite Yagi Arrays
• Boxkite Yagi Construction
• Field-Zeroing Vertical Antennas
• Twin-C Antennas
• Compact Ground-Plane Antennas
• Ground Loss Effects in Scale Model Trials of a Compact Ground-Plane
• The C-pole: A Ground-Independent Vertical Antenna for the HF Bands
• C-Pole Antenna Systems
• The Big Loop: an Improved Tunable Loop for the Upper HF Bands
• Linear Loading Theory

Softbound © 2009. The American Radio Relay League, Inc. #1479