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Antennas-History (What's Going On?)
Over The Hill wrote:
However, the really really good ones have something extra which is learned from books. Those are the special ones, the inventors. Sorry, should read: However, the really really good ones have something extra which is *not* learned from books. Those are the special ones, the inventors. -- Over The Hill __________________________________________________ ___________________________ The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. ***Edsgar Dijkstra*** |
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Wayne Watson wrote:
"What about the underlying methodology behind this?" Please refer to the 3rd. edition of "Antennas for All Applications", by John D. Kraus with a host of other professors, for answers to nearly all your questions. Kraus organizes antennas by types. The dipole is the simplest complete antenna. But, the first practical antenna was patented by Marconi. He was interested in communications over the ocean, so only 1/2 of a dipole is needed. The return circuit is provided by the ocean. Sea water is nearly lossless. Marconi imagined the antenna as a capacitor plate.. Then he discovered the antenna worked about as well with just the connectng wires inplace, without the plate. As the 19th century turned into the 20th century, Marconi spanned the Atlantic with signals from his antennas. Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI |
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Richard Harrison wrote:
Wayne Watson wrote: "What about the underlying methodology behind this?" Please refer to the 3rd. edition of "Antennas for All Applications", by John D. Kraus with a host of other professors, for answers to nearly all your questions. Kraus organizes antennas by types. The dipole is the simplest complete antenna. But, the first practical antenna was patented by Marconi. He was interested in communications over the ocean, so only 1/2 of a dipole is needed. The return circuit is provided by the ocean. Sea water is nearly lossless. Marconi imagined the antenna as a capacitor plate.. Then he discovered the antenna worked about as well with just the connectng wires inplace, without the plate. As the 19th century turned into the 20th century, Marconi spanned the Atlantic with signals from his antennas. Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI A book by that title was not found on Amazon. You're not thinking of the latest edition of his "Antennas" are you? -- Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Traveling in remote places in the winter. What's the best tool to carry with you? An axe. -- Survivorman, Discovery (SCI) Channel Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:28:22 GMT, "W. Watson"
wrote: A book by that title was not found on Amazon. You're not thinking of the latest edition of his "Antennas" are you? Hi OM, Amazon is a poor start. Try a real book vendor: http://www.alibris.com/search/search...*listing*title where there are three available. You may not like the price, however. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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Richard Clark wrote:
wrote: A book by that title was not found on Amazon. You're not thinking of the latest edition of his "Antennas" are you? "for all applications" is part of a subtitle. Amazon is a poor start. Try a real book vendor: http://www.alibris.com/search/search...*listing*title where there are three available. You may not like the price, however. Prices ($31) are good he http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/...072321032&x=44 -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
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Cecil Moore wrote:
Richard Clark wrote: wrote: A book by that title was not found on Amazon. You're not thinking of the latest edition of his "Antennas" are you? "for all applications" is part of a subtitle. Amazon is a poor start. Try a real book vendor: http://www.alibris.com/search/search...*listing*title where there are three available. You may not like the price, however. Prices ($31) are good he http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/...072321032&x=44 Interesting. It's in San Jose. I'll be there Saturday. I wonder where they are? (Cheapestbooks). Interesting source. When I was a student (a very long time ago), I would sometimes buy paperback books of many texts from Blackwells in England. The price was usually about 1/2. Sometimes (back then, and maybe still), one could by tech books from China that was on almost tissue paper pages. They were quite cheap. -- Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Traveling in arid or desert country? Check your boots well to see if you have a scorpion in them. -- Survivorman, Discovery (SCI) Channel Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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Richard Clark wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:28:22 GMT, "W. Watson" wrote: A book by that title was not found on Amazon. You're not thinking of the latest edition of his "Antennas" are you? Hi OM, Amazon is a poor start. Try a real book vendor: http://www.alibris.com/search/search...*listing*title where there are three available. You may not like the price, however. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC Yes, that is pretty steep. However, Kraus's 3rd edition of "Antennas" is $165. I'll be down in the SF Bay Area this weekend. Maybe I can find it at a library down there, or arrange to get an interlibrary loan. I use albris on occasion. Glad you reminded me of it. -- Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Traveling in arid or desert country? Check your boots well to see if you have a scorpion in them. -- Survivorman, Discovery (SCI) Channel Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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I think many antenna designs arose as a matter of "necessity is the mother
of invention" For example here is a Yagi antenna quote from URL: http://ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net/newsletters/200405.pdf At Tohoku, Yagi initiated a research program in radio-electronics drawing on what he had learned from Barkhausen, Fleming, and Pierce. Other members of the faculty and advanced students, including Okabe and Shintaro Uda, became participants in a collective research effort. A perceived need for better communication between islands and with ships led them to focus on short wave communication with directive antennas. The Yagi group received financial support for the research from a private foundation in Sendai. In February 1926, Yagi and Uda published their first report on the wave projector antenna in a Japanese publication. For the Cubical Quad see URL: http://www.antennex.com/preview/Jan501/quad1.htm Clarence Moore, the station engineer at HCJB in Quito, and some colleagues took along with them a stack of antenna and engineering texts and a Bible on a Sabbatical in 1942. Their urgent goal was to come up with an antenna that wouldn't consume itself by corona discharge when fed with high power, as was happening to their Yagi, at the high Andean altitude of their station. A full wave loop solved the problem. Some remarkable antenna designs today because of the need to fit an antenna on a cell phone. For direction finding, loops, interferometers, etc were needed ETC -- CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be ! "Wayne Watson" wrote in message news I hardly know where to start with this topic. If one picks up some of the fairly popular (available?) books on the matter, the authors invariably start throwing different types of antennas at the reader, yagi, helical, dipole, folded dipole, parabolic, loop, dish, microwave, quads, etc. For example, I'm looking at an older book on the topic I bought some 20 years ago, The Radio Amateur Handbook by Orr and Cowan. The book is basically for builders. Many such books are. What about the underlying methodology behind this? More generally, here's my question. I would guess that in the beginning (late 1800s) the simple dipole was it. As years passed, the complexity of antennas has increased. What was the driving force for these changes? For example, how did the inventor of the Yagi (Yagi-Uda) ever dream up the idea for the antenna? Was it the application of theory or did he just get lucky? In fact, is there some underlying theory that drives the design of antennas? For example, the computation of radiation patterns. I'm sure these days the computer would be an aid, but what theory and application drove the development of varied designs before 1960? When did Maxwell's equations seriously get used for this? What suggested a tin can could become an antenna? How did anyone think up the idea of a microwave antenna? I would think that in the case of antennas that are used for different parts of the EM spectrum a driving force would be the consideration of the wave itself. For example, it would seem unlikely an x-ray antenna (I believe there is such a thing on one of the space satellites used in astronomy) would be anything like one used to receive TV. Certainly the 'antenna' to collect visible light is different than that for AM radio. -- Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Traveling in remote places in the winter. What's the best tool to carry with you? An axe. -- Survivorman, Discovery (SCI) Channel Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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Antennas-History (What's Going On?)
Caveat Lector wrote:
I think many antenna designs arose as a matter of "necessity is the mother of invention" For example here is a Yagi antenna quote from URL: http://ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net/newsletters/200405.pdf At Tohoku, Yagi initiated a research program in radio-electronics drawing on what he had learned from Barkhausen, Fleming, and Pierce. Other members of the faculty and advanced students, including Okabe and Shintaro Uda, became participants in a collective research effort. A perceived need for better communication between islands and with ships led them to focus on short wave communication with directive antennas. The Yagi group received financial support for the research from a private foundation in Sendai. In February 1926, Yagi and Uda published their first report on the wave projector antenna in a Japanese publication. For the Cubical Quad see URL: http://www.antennex.com/preview/Jan501/quad1.htm Clarence Moore, the station engineer at HCJB in Quito, and some colleagues took along with them a stack of antenna and engineering texts and a Bible on a Sabbatical in 1942. Their urgent goal was to come up with an antenna that wouldn't consume itself by corona discharge when fed with high power, as was happening to their Yagi, at the high Andean altitude of their station. A full wave loop solved the problem. Some remarkable antenna designs today because of the need to fit an antenna on a cell phone. For direction finding, loops, interferometers, etc were needed ETC Yes, those are interesting insights. Kraus in "Antennas" offers several. -- Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet Traveling in remote places in the winter. What's the best tool to carry with you? An axe. -- Survivorman, Discovery (SCI) Channel Web Page: home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews |
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