On 2/1/21 8:21 AM, Dave Daniel wrote:
There are many textbooks out there. Some are:
Any revision of John Kraus¡¯ ¡°Antennas¡± text (classic and probably the best choice when starting out)
2nd ed is available on scribd in various formats and is sufficiently new for most amateur purposes.
Kraus is my "go-to" book in general when I need a good explanation, and some theory.
My general take is that Kraus approaches antennas from a "start with antenna, and explain why it works", while Balanis is a bit more like "start with first principles and, hey, you can make an antenna".? Both are good.
Another useful text book is Orfanidis's Electromagnetic Waves and Antennas, which is online. It's kind of written from the optics perspective, and is fairly math heavy. However, he has a whole bunch of matlab code available to do useful stuff like calculate impedances, mutual coupling, design Yagis,e tc. Whether you run Matlab (or Octave), or you use that as a guide to rewriting in some other language, it's really useful.
