[Microwave] MIT Rad Lab books on CD?

[root]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:56 -0500, J. Forster wrote:
> root wrote:
> 
> > The Harvard book is called "Very High Frequency Techniques."
> 
> Can you describe the contents in a sentence or two? Is it coax or WG oriented?  What
> frequency range (roughly) is it's focus. I know Edward Purcell was working in Ku band
> near war's end and near 1420 post war.
> 
> Thanks,
> -John
> 
100 to 1000 MHz. Coax, antennas, transmission line and coaxial cavity
filters. Butterfly tuners. Broadbanding antennas. Or by the contents:
1. Broad-band antennas.
2. Ultrahigh-Frequency Measurements
3. Impedance Matching, Transformers and Baluns
4. Cone and Cylinder Antennas
5. Sleeve Antennas
6. Horns and Reflectors
7. Slot Antennas
8. Auxiliary Devices for Antennas. Includes coax and waveguide switches.
9. Principles of Direction Finding
10. Antennas for direction finders
11. Indicators for direction finders
12. Homing systems
13. Introduction to power generation
14. Triode and Pentod Ultrahigh-frequency oscillators
15. Coaxial line Power Amplifiers and oscillators
16. Power output coupling methods
17. Modulation of HF Power Oscillators
18. General Design of High power UHF triode and tetrode oscillators
19. The resnatron
20. Principles of magnetron operation.
21. Operating characteristics of CW magnetrons
22. Cavity magnetrons
23. Externally tuned magnetron oscillators
24. Power measuring devices for UHF
25. Receivers, general considerations.
26. Principles of transmission line filter design (by Seymour Cohn).
27. Design of transmission line filters (by Seymour Cohn).
28. Tuners for microwave receivers
29. Detectors and mixers.
30. Local oscillators 1. General Considerations and butterfly
oscillators.
31. Local Oscillators 2. Reflex klystron oscillators.
32. Local oscillators 3. Wide-band Coaxial line resonators.
33. IF amplifiers.
34. Receiver output circuits.
35. Measuring equipment for receivers.

You should have heard of these authors:
S. B. Cohn, John D. Kraus, Andrew Alford, Herbert J. Reich, they lead
the microwave industry into the 50s and 60s.

73, Jerry, K0CQ