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Article: Basic antennas for experimenters. (All About).
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- Poptronics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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If you ever experiment with receivers and/or transmitters, you will at some point need to consider the subject of antennas. This is a very large subject and could occupy hundreds of thousands of pages with some pretty advanced mathematics and electromagnetic theory. However, the antennas that a casual experimenter will use are generally simple types, such as wires, whip antennas, and dipoles. We will present some basics that will be useful to the experimenter, shortwave, or scanner enthusiast, or for use with hobby low-power transmitters. We will not go into the more complex types, such as yagis and log periodic arrays, as much more space would be needed than is available ...