Modern antenna design

I wrote this book from my perspective as a designer in industry, primarily for other designers and users of antennas. On occasion I have prepared and taught antenna courses, for which I developed a systematic approach to the subject. For the last decade I have edited the “Antenna Designer’s Notebook” column in the IEEE antenna magazine. This expanded edition adds a combination of my own design notebook and the many other ideas provided to me by others, leading to this collection of ideas that I think designers should know. The book contains a systematic approach to the subject. Every author would like to be read from front to back, but my own career assignments would have caused to me to jump around in this book. Nevertheless, Chapter 1 covers those topics that every user and designer should know. Because I deal with complete antenna design, which includes mounting the antenna, included are the effects of nearby structures and how they can be used to enhance the response. We all study ideal antennas floating in free space to help us understand the basics, but the real world is a little different.