Fundamental background theory and analytical techniques explained in detail where appropriate. The ultimate reference for amateur radio antennas, transmission lines and propagation. In a discipline that has experienced vast technological changes, this text offers the most recent look at all the necessary topics. Kraus this text is for the course on antennas offered to the seniorgraduate level by most electrical engineering departments. Clerks in radio stores told me that this book was outselling other titles 2.
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The receiving properties of antennas are characterized by the antenna affective area af,t,i, where the available power at the output of the receiving antenna prf is the product of the effective area of the receiving antenna in direction t,i and the flux density swm2hz1 incident from that direction. The book deals with basic theory of course, basics of numerical methods, arrays and array synthesis, all the basic radiator types, and phased arrays. Sometimes you get sick of reading things on the internet, and want a comprehensive antenna book to read. The latest resource for the study of antenna theory.
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