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.