"Joel Kolstad" wrote in message
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Hi Walt,

"Walter Maxwell" wrote in message
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Concerning a topic on rho 1, of course this involves lossy lines, which I
have
never studied very thoroughly, so I'm not about to expose my ignorance in
that
area. However, R.A.Chipman discusses it well in Schaum's Outline of Theory
and
Problems of Transmission Lines. Recommended reading.

OK! Aas a matter of fact, I've scanned in Chipman's book (it's available at
http://oregonstate.edu/~kolstadj/ as "Transmission Lines (Chipman).pdf"), but
I haven't actually had time to read any significant chunk of it yet.

---Joel

Yep, you've got Chipman nailed down! His tome is one of my bibles. The others
are Kraus' Antennas, and Ed Laport's Radio Antenna Engineering. I have scanned
Laport to a CD, which I'll send you a copy unless you already have one. It's too
large to email, and I don't yet have it available on my web page. So let me know
if you'd like a copy. It's also a gold mine.

Walt, W2DU

Hi Walt,

"Walter Maxwell" wrote in message
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Yep, you've got Chipman nailed down! His tome is one of my bibles. The
others
are Kraus' Antennas, and Ed Laport's Radio Antenna Engineering.

I have Kraus' book (the last edition printed! -- now that Dr. Kraus has died,
it'll be interesting to see if Ronald Marhefka releases another edition of
it?) and Laport's book from
http://snulbug.mtview.ca.us/books/Ra...naEngineering/. Is that the same
scan you have?

I tried to build a 2.4GHz helical antenna based on the information in Kraus'
book some 3 or so years ago now, but unfortunately it didn't work. Having
access to a network analyzer these days would probably improve my odds...!

Thanks,
--Joel