[Elecraft] ARRL Antenna Book (and other antenna books)

[Walter Underwood]

> On May 11, 2022, at 10:40 PM, Jim Brown <jim at 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.

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Walter Underwood
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