After fourty years of ham radio this book told me how to be in the top of a pile up, and did it at a price I could afford. If you like to listen to DX on these bands this is the book for you. Make sure you get the new third edition for the improved pitures and up dated imformation. Alex KR6G

As wrote on the back cover: Before buying or build your beam antenna, take a moment to read this book. It will guide you away of the many myths and bad-pratices.

Chiral material has interesting properties such as, only Left hand and right hand circularly polarized waves can propagate in chiral medium. And, there have been many researches about the chiral materials. Now, i am going to prepare a thesis about it. That is the reason I want to write a review of that book!

I got this biik from my teacher in ISU and have kept it dusted for nearly 2 years. One day when I found it by chance I was so surprising that many good words inside and secure my confusions.

It's not only a book, it make me feel like a travelling microwave and feel what microwave do.

This is the standard text for the microwave engineer student.The author makes a very comprehensive survey of the field,beginning from basic electromagnetics and circuit theory and analyzing both passive and active devices and circuit.Very good coverage of the microstrip line basic theory which is very hard to find elsewhere.In my opinion professor Collin is a very gifted scientifical writer,both clear and accurate.If you want to be a first rate Microwave engineer then you surely need this book.Very good text!

Since I have not read this book ,I can not draw a conclusion.If this book can help me to solve some design problem ,then I'll regard it usefull.

"The Gods of Antenna" is a well written "book of lists" that details a particular technique of telling the news and then a list of examples. The book was written by a person in the Nixon White House 2 years after Watergate... this guy is an insider with an interesting perspective... although the examples are a bit dated for someone not "of age" in 1976. Go to microfiche and check his sources. Well worth it. I don't own a copy of the book (I'm looking for it here.) So, I won't give an example because I can't quote it exactly. Regardless, this relatively short book could be used as a textbook for Public Relations and as a guide to understanding the quality or character of the news that we read or watch on TV.

A great book to use along with one of the standard textbooks (such as Krauss's Electromagnetics) on Electromagnetism. But, the Book does assumes you know vector algebra and vector calculus.
Also assumes you have good knowledge of Guass, Faraday, etc. laws from electrostatics. It answers many questions I had and it put together both the big picture and some details of Electromagnetics. No answers to problems at end of chapters is a minor draw back. Over all, the book is well worth the price.

Don't be one of those people who spend big money for a deluxe communications receiver and then waste its potential by using a poorly designed, inefficient antenna system with it. For top reception from 100 kHz to 30 MHz, your receiver needs an antenna that can deliver as much signal as possible to it.

Joe Carr's Receiving Antenna Handbook is a complete guide to high performance receiving antennas for long wave all the way to the upper end of the short-wave spectrum. This isn't some warmed-over collection of slightly modified ham radio transmitting antenna designs; instead, it is a comprehensive examination of slightly modified ham radio transmitting antenna designs; instead, it is a comprehensive examination of antennas intended specifically for receiving purposes. Among the many topics Carr discusses are:

* The basic theory behind all receiving antennas
* How signals propagate over long distances and how to design antennas to maximize reception distance
* How to construct a tuned antenna for any frequency below 30 MHz
* Special designs for indoor and limited space applications
* Getting a good ground connection at radio frequencies
* Safety considerations in antenna design and installation
* Beverage, rhombic, and other directional short-wave antennas
* Loop antennas for the AM broadcast band

Joe Carr gives you complete construction details for each antenna. Most can be easily constructed using only wire or aluminum tubing. And you don't need to be an electronics genius to understand Joe's clear, friendly text to build one of the designs in this book. Give your receiver what it needs to pull those weak signals out of the noise-a good antenna!

Do yourself (and your radio) a favor and purchase this book, you will not be sorry!

First of all Amazon has the author list wrong. I have tbe book and the order is: R. Garg, P. Bhartia, I.J. Bahl and A. Ittipiboon. All the authors, particularly the first two, are are well-known in the area of microstrip antennas. This is book is the expanded version of the 1980 classic 'Microstrip Antennas'
by I. J. Bhal and P. Bhartia.

In this edition, the authors have done a remarkable job of exposing essentially all aspects of microstrip antennas, including the transmission line model, cavity model, generalized
transmission line model, microstrip Green's functions, spectral and space domain approaches and the like. The treatment of these
topics is fairly good, and whatever they have omitted in the text, have been adequately referenced by citing the appropriate
sources.

The book describes, the basic canonical microstrip antenna shapes such as rectangular and circular and continues on to include broadband antennas, circularly polarized antennas and
arrays with a host of other topics that the serious reader shall
find most invaluable. The book is bulky (running into about 850 pages), and is packed with information. The book also has a good
number of appendices that are most useful for microstripline feed design.

I'm currently using this book and find that this is a wonderful
book for my personal library. Serious antenna engineers should
consider buying it.