The ARRL Antenna Book for Radio Communications (24th Edition)
Author / Issuing Authority: ARRL / Ward Silver (Ed.) • Category: RF Comms, Electronics & Offline Compute
The definitive 1,100-page RF antenna engineering reference: NVIS arrays, Yagis, earth radials, impedance matching & transmission lines.
Why This Manual Matters in a Grid-Down Outage
When commercial communications infrastructure fails, range and reliability depend 90% on antenna efficiency rather than transmitter wattage. This is the master reference for designing, matching, and erecting antennas from 1.8MHz HF to UHF/SHF.
Plant-Room & Field Operational Takeaway
Exact physical build dimensions, radial ground-screen layouts, Smith chart stub matching, toroidal balun winding recipes, and high-angle NVIS antenna designs for zero-skip regional links.
Maintaining a physical dead-tree edition of The ARRL Antenna Book for Radio Communications (24th Edition) (ISBN-13: 978-1625951113) in your plant room, comms rack, or site incident grab-bag ensures engineers and duty wardens have immediate access to statutory tables, pinouts, and safety protocols when cloud documentation portals and corporate intranets are unreachable.
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