07-14-2009, 09:30 PM
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Antenna Books
I have these 3 books, they are all first rate.
Pracitcal Antenna Handbook, by Josef Carr, is a fantastic first book for those interested in antenna theory, terminology, design, concepts, and issues. More oriented towards ham radio communications, but great primer on antennas all around....gets technical with heavy math in places but you can skim that and still follow along if that floats your boat.
Radio Shacks 2 books are good too, and less technical, I prefer the older one Introduction to Antennas, by Louis Dezettal, but the newer one is alright too....Antennas Selection and Installation (TV, FM, CB, Cellular, Satellite and Shortwave). Good basics!
I just got this one and this is the one I wanted to talk about. Its particularly concerned with TV antennas and their installation. Fantastic book.....TV Antennas, by Samuel L. Marshall, 1955.
Anybody read it?
It covers antenna design and theory very well without getting ultra ultra deep, as well as other system components like transmission wires (RG6, twinlead) and mounting. And it sticks to TV frequencies and antenna designs suited to and commonly found for those frequencies and wide bands, both UHF and VHF.
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07-14-2009, 09:43 PM
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Awesome thread EV. I've been to 4 Barnes and Nobles in the past 2 months looking for any kind of book that has to do with OTA and antennas. There's nothing in stock.
I may just order online now. Thanks for the recommendations. |
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07-15-2009, 05:18 PM
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Also see the whisker bowtie antenna has been around a long time. My Grandparents had one back in the late 1950's to pick up WSUN out of St. Pete, FL. My uncle paid for to be installed to watch sports on Sunday afternoons at the big Italian Sunday dinners we used to have. My uncles would spend the afternoon watching sports. When WSUN picked up ABC it was then a must have station.
Her antenna looked just like CM4220
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07-15-2009, 05:36 PM
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I have never seen anything written on it but from what I know the double directors above on the UVF24, the nitro and the X-directors of the Black and XG19, I believe add to broad band the antenna. They are so close together I can't see them adding much gain, as normal vertical stacking for UHF gain is 20 inches. Then again look at the standard bowtie, they are stacked about 8 inches vertically.
I have heard the X-directors do add bandwidth, being something like folded dipoles but with the ends open. But the one above and nitro, I am not sure.
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