The Antenna Book is really good. I find antenna design and experimentation one
of the more interesting/fun aspects of ham radio and have gotten many of ARRL's
(RSGB, etc) other antenna books over the years: Antenna Compendium 1-8, various
Antenna Classics, stealth antennas, HF Antennas for All Locations, Rothhammel's
Antenna Book, Antenna Experimenters Guide, recently Antenna Physics... Of
course I've only tried and experimented with an infinitesimal number of these
designs but I'm always learning something reading about them. .
On Thursday, May 12, 2022, 06:15:06 AM MDT, Rick Robinson
<rickw...@gmail.com> wrote:
I used an online question site for my Extra Class study years ago and this
site showed which questions I missed. I used my Handbook and Antenna book
to study up on the questions I missed or was unsure of. Without them I
would still be guessing and not know a darn thing. Two best investments I
ever made in Amateur Radio. Even if you can only get an old book , it is
still probably 90% revelent. Newer books will cover newer digital comms.
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 2:27 AM Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org>
wrote:
> > On May 11, 2022, at 10:40 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > And I agree with W4TV about the usefulness of the Antenna Book. I
> contribute both to it and to the Handbook. These three ARRL books have been
> central to my learning, in some ways, at least as important as my EE
> education.
> >
> > 73, Jim K9YC
>
> I changed the subject line because this has dritted away from the dipole
> quandry.
>
> The ARRL Antenna Book is a rare kind of technical writing that works for
> many different levels of expertise. I learned things from it when I was 14
> and I’ve learned things from it when I was 65. To be fair, I was a 14 year
> old who got a slide rule for Christmas. Now I’m a 65 year old with a BSEE.
> I can’t think of another technical book that works from 8th grade to
> post-grad. Maybe the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
>
> The ON4UN book is also excellent. The only similarly detailed discussion
> of radial systems seems to be in some AM broadcast manual that costs
> hundreds of dollars.
>
> The only topic not covered in those two books is grounding and bonding,
> which is covered in the also excellent ARRL Grounding and Bonding for the
> Radio Amateur. Yeah, the ARRL does not do creative book titles.
>
> I guess I should get a current Handbook. I wore out my 1970 edition.
>
> wunder
> K6WRU
> Walter Underwood
> CM87wj
> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
>
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