Here a few of the better links I've collected since I started researching and designing. Hopefully they will be helpful to some others.
I'm putting these here because I'm going to assume most of the ham guys have already found the information, know the information or think the know the information.
I'm a CB guy and I'd like to make it easier for other cb guys to get their learn on and hopefully stop buying into all the smoke and mirror bs in this side of the hobby.
So you've been lead to the "water", question is will you "drink"?
Antenna Theory
Basic Antenna Theory (Struzak)
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/lectures/struzak/Anten_theor_basics.pdf
Antenna Basics (Radicella & Struzak)
http://wireless.ictp.it/handbook/C4.pdf
Antenna Measurement (Radicella & Struzak)
http://wireless.ictp.it/handbook/C6.pdf
Basic Antenna Principals for Mobile Communications (Scholz)
http://www.kathrein.pl/down/BasicAntenna.pdf
Antenna Theory: US Army Signal Center
http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/pdf/4466.pdf
Antenna Theory 101 (ARRL)
http://www.laarrl.org/pdfs/upthecoax4.pdf
Fundamentals of Antennas (Kishk)
http://www.mhprofessional.com/downloads/products/0071612882/0071612882_chap01.pdf
The HF Mobile Antenna (Griffith)
http://www.w4ymi.com/andy_w4uld/hf moble all parts.pdf
Antenna and Radio Integration for Mobile Platforms
http://www.antennasonline.com/images/Whitepapers/Antenova.pdf
HF Mobile Antenna (Sherwood)
http://www.sherweng.com/documents/HFMobileAntennas-sm.pdf
SWR, Return Loss, Reflection Coefficient,*Impedance & Matching
Impedance Matching and the Smith Chart (Harter)
http://www.ieee.li/pdf/essay/smith_c...ndamentals.pdf
Definitions and Misuse of Return Loss (Bird)
http://ieeeaps.org/aps_trans/docs/ReturnLossAPMag_09.pdf
Tuners
Evaluation of Antenna Tuners and Baluns an Update (Witt)
http://www.nonstopsystems.com/radio/...ers-baluns.pdf
Transmission Lines
Transmission Lines (Radicella & Struzak)
http://wireless.ictp.it/handbook/C2.pdf
Measurements on Transmission Lines
http://wireless.ictp.it/handbook/C3.pdf
Coax and Other Feedlines (ARRL)
http://www.laarrl.org/pdfs/upthecoax8.pdf
Antennas and Transmission Lines
http://scvemc.org/archive/112011MarkSteffka.pdf
NEC/EZNEC
EZNEC User Manual
http://www.eznec.com/misc/EZNEC_Printable_Manual/5.0/EZW50_User_Manual.pdf
A Beginners Guide to Using NEC (L.B. Cebik)
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/download/nec2/nec_part1.pdf
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/download/nec2/nec_part2.pdf
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/download/nec2/nec_part3.pdf
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/download/nec2/nec_part4.pdf
Using EZNEC to Model Antennas
http://www.k5sld.com/presentations/may-2009/EZNEC-basics.pdf
Misc Resources
RF Units of Measure (IWCE)
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/...eor_basics.pdf
73 Vertical, Beam and Triangle Antennas (Noll)
http://om6bb.bab.sk/files/Anteny/Publikacie/Ine/73 Vertical, Beam and Triangle Antennas - 1.pdf
Beams and Directional Antennas
http://www.laarrl.org/pdfs/upthecoax7.pdf
RMS Power (Lewallen)
http://www.eznec.com/Amateur/RMS_Power.pdf
RF Basics (Radicella & Struzak)
http://wireless.ictp.it/handbook/C1.pdf
VIAS (Virtual Institute of Applied Science
Ebooks (can be downloaded as HTML files)
VIAS - Free Books on Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Yagi-Uda Antenna (Xue)
http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~cynthia/paper/yagi.pdf
NBS Technical Note 688 Yagi Antenna Design (NBS)
http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/451.pdf
If you've got other solid links to good information, post them up!
- Bulldog357
I'm putting these here because I'm going to assume most of the ham guys have already found the information, know the information or think the know the information.
I'm a CB guy and I'd like to make it easier for other cb guys to get their learn on and hopefully stop buying into all the smoke and mirror bs in this side of the hobby.
So you've been lead to the "water", question is will you "drink"?
Antenna Theory
Basic Antenna Theory (Struzak)
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/lectures/struzak/Anten_theor_basics.pdf
Antenna Basics (Radicella & Struzak)
http://wireless.ictp.it/handbook/C4.pdf
Antenna Measurement (Radicella & Struzak)
http://wireless.ictp.it/handbook/C6.pdf
Basic Antenna Principals for Mobile Communications (Scholz)
http://www.kathrein.pl/down/BasicAntenna.pdf
Antenna Theory: US Army Signal Center
http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/pdf/4466.pdf
Antenna Theory 101 (ARRL)
http://www.laarrl.org/pdfs/upthecoax4.pdf
Fundamentals of Antennas (Kishk)
http://www.mhprofessional.com/downloads/products/0071612882/0071612882_chap01.pdf
The HF Mobile Antenna (Griffith)
http://www.w4ymi.com/andy_w4uld/hf moble all parts.pdf
Antenna and Radio Integration for Mobile Platforms
http://www.antennasonline.com/images/Whitepapers/Antenova.pdf
HF Mobile Antenna (Sherwood)
http://www.sherweng.com/documents/HFMobileAntennas-sm.pdf
SWR, Return Loss, Reflection Coefficient,*Impedance & Matching
Impedance Matching and the Smith Chart (Harter)
http://www.ieee.li/pdf/essay/smith_c...ndamentals.pdf
Definitions and Misuse of Return Loss (Bird)
http://ieeeaps.org/aps_trans/docs/ReturnLossAPMag_09.pdf
Tuners
Evaluation of Antenna Tuners and Baluns an Update (Witt)
http://www.nonstopsystems.com/radio/...ers-baluns.pdf
Transmission Lines
Transmission Lines (Radicella & Struzak)
http://wireless.ictp.it/handbook/C2.pdf
Measurements on Transmission Lines
http://wireless.ictp.it/handbook/C3.pdf
Coax and Other Feedlines (ARRL)
http://www.laarrl.org/pdfs/upthecoax8.pdf
Antennas and Transmission Lines
http://scvemc.org/archive/112011MarkSteffka.pdf
NEC/EZNEC
EZNEC User Manual
http://www.eznec.com/misc/EZNEC_Printable_Manual/5.0/EZW50_User_Manual.pdf
A Beginners Guide to Using NEC (L.B. Cebik)
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/download/nec2/nec_part1.pdf
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/download/nec2/nec_part2.pdf
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/download/nec2/nec_part3.pdf
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/download/nec2/nec_part4.pdf
Using EZNEC to Model Antennas
http://www.k5sld.com/presentations/may-2009/EZNEC-basics.pdf
Misc Resources
RF Units of Measure (IWCE)
http://wireless.ictp.it/school_2005/...eor_basics.pdf
73 Vertical, Beam and Triangle Antennas (Noll)
http://om6bb.bab.sk/files/Anteny/Publikacie/Ine/73 Vertical, Beam and Triangle Antennas - 1.pdf
Beams and Directional Antennas
http://www.laarrl.org/pdfs/upthecoax7.pdf
RMS Power (Lewallen)
http://www.eznec.com/Amateur/RMS_Power.pdf
RF Basics (Radicella & Struzak)
http://wireless.ictp.it/handbook/C1.pdf
VIAS (Virtual Institute of Applied Science
Ebooks (can be downloaded as HTML files)
VIAS - Free Books on Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Yagi-Uda Antenna (Xue)
http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~cynthia/paper/yagi.pdf
NBS Technical Note 688 Yagi Antenna Design (NBS)
http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/451.pdf
If you've got other solid links to good information, post them up!
- Bulldog357
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