[TowerTalk] Kraus's book "Antennas" is available for free at archive.org
Jim Lux
jimlux at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 19 11:38:03 EST 2015
2nd edition, which is fine for most uses..
One of the best antenna textbooks out there, in my not so humble
opinion. Any text which has pictures of the author standing in the
backyard in front of antennas he/she built is a good one.
It has all the the theory and the math, but is accessible without it,
and doesn't require you to derive everything from Maxwell's equations to
understand it.
Anyone building HF antennas, and in particular, using modeling tools,
needs this book or an equivalent.. Balanis is the other famous text, but
I find he's a more "start with the theory and see what happens", while
Kraus is a "here's what happens, let's figure out why" sort of approach.
https://archive.org/details/Antennas2ndbyjohnD.Kraus1988
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