Electronic and Radio Engineering

The book contains: Antenna Basics: Introduction Basic Antenna Parameters – Patterns Beam Area Radiation Intensity Beam Efficiency Directivity-Gain-Resolution Antenna Apertures Illustrative Problems. Fields from Oscillating Dipole Field Zones Front - to-back Ratio Antenna Theorems Radiation Retarded Potentials – Helmholtz Theorem. Thin Linear Wire Antennas – Radiation from Small Electric Dipole Quarter Wave Monopole and Half Wave Dipole – Current Distributions Field Components Radiated Power Radiation Resistance Beam Width Directivity Effective Area Effective Height Natural Current Distributions Far Fields and Patterns of Thin Linear Centre-fed Antennas of Different Lengths Illustrative Problems.