[Lowfer] Re: LF: Efficient antennas

[Clifford Buttschardt]

Without a doubt, both of you are "right on".  I too favor the more
practical approach to things, refining results with mathematics rather
than defining them!  See you in the morning on 74 Ed!  Cliff K7RR

On Fri, 28 May 1999, Andre' Kesteloot wrote:

> Thanks Ed for your endorsement.  Oftentimes, I find that books written by the
> "pioneers" (Laport, Henney, erman, etc.) made much more sense than the
> equation-filled papers that we find in today's IEEE Proceedings
> Andre' N4ICK
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> Ed Phillips wrote:
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> > "Edmund Laport was Chief Engineer of RCA International when he published
> > his 542-page book   "Radio Antenna Engineering",  McGraw Hill 1952.
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> > Allow me to quote from page 14 of that wonderful book:
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> > "Low-frequency-antenna engineering..[...]"
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> >         Enthusiastically second your views on "Laport",  as his book has always
> > been known  where I work; I am lucky enough to have a copy which I
> > really prize.  I would suggest that some of the fellows who put an
> > inordinate amount of work in their radials to look at some of his curves
> > of effectiveness vs the number of radials.
> >
> >         Unfortunately, electrically-small antennas are very limited in
> > performance, and there really isn't much that can be done about it.
> >
> > Ed
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