K7ITM wrote:

Ronold King made a career out of developing the theory of linear
antennas. I find the "Antennas" chapter he wrote for "Transmission
Lines, Antennas and Waveguides" to be a valuable source of insight
about antennas. It's presentation is more empirical than theoretical,
but I've found that his explanations there pretty much always give me
better insights into what's going on. It can be tough to find the
book, but I do have a PDF photocopy...

Not too tough. Amazon has 7 copies from $9.96 -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...4901677&sr=1-8
They appear to be the original 1945 hardcover book. Mine is a soft cover
Dover reprint published in 1965. Alibris has 17 copies, for $7.00 up -
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/...ave%20gu ides.

The quick web search that found these also found others. I picked mine
up at Powell's some time ago for $15.00.

I also highly recommend this book.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL