Table of Contents - W1GHZ Microwave Antenna Book ONLINE

The W1GHZ Online Microwave Antenna Book
Paul Wade W1GHZ (ex N1BWT) © 1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001

Table of Contents

Preface -30 September 1999

Part 1 — Practical Antennas

1. Antenna Basics - 25 September 1998

2. Electromagnetic Horn Antennas - March 1998

3. Metal-plate Lens Antennas - April 1998

4. Parabolic Dish Antennas - March 1998

5. Offset-fed Parabolic Dishes - 29 April 1998

Appendix 5A - Common Offset Dishes - October 1999

6. Feeds for Parabolic Dish Antennas - in progress

6.0 Introduction and Feed Index- 23 September 1999

6.1 Feed Phase and Phase Center - January 1999

6.1.1-4 Phase and Phase Center

6.1.5 Dish Patterns with Focus Error

6.2 Dipole and Wire Feeds - January 1999

6.2.1 Dipole feeds

6.2.2 EIA dual-dipole feeds

6.2.3 Loop feeds

6.3 Circular Waveguide Feeds - January 1999

6.3.1 Coffee-can feeds

6.3.2 WA9HUV -- Coffee-can with flange

6.3.3 VE4MA feed

6.3.4 Chaparral-style feeds

6.4 Horn Feeds - 30 September 1999

6.4.1 Conical horn feeds

6.4.2 Rectangular horn feeds

6.4.3 Corrugated conical horn feeds

6.5 Dual-Mode Feeds

Part 1 - 30 September 1999

6.5.1 W2IMU dual-mode feed

6.5.2 W2IMU dual-mode feed examples

Part 2

- 30 September 1999

6.5.3 Diagonal horn

6.5.4 Potter dual-mode conical horn

6.5.5 VK2ALU dual-mode feedhorn

6.5.6 Higher-order multi-mode feeds

6.6 Helical Feeds

6.7 Other Feeds - 14 October 1999

6.7.1 Clavin feed (1974)

6.7.2 Backward or rear feeds

6.7.3 Diffraction

6.7.4 Backward or rear feeds continued

6.8 Radiotelescope Feeds

6.9 Multiband Feeds - 15 May 2000

Part 1

Multi-band dipole and horn feeds

Part 2 Multi-band feed experiments, Broadband feeds, feed assemblies

6.10 Multiple-reflector Dishes

Appendix 6A - Parabolic Dish Gain & Beamwidth - October 1999

Appendix 6B - Setting up a Parabolic Dish Antenna - 28 June 2000

7. Slot Antennas - 8 July 2001 ***NEW***

Part 1

Waveguide Slot Antennas

Part 2 Performance Enhancements

Part 3 Other Considerations, Two-dimensional slot arrays

Part 4 Slotted-cylinder and Alford slot antennas

Part 5 Summary and References

8. Periscope Antenna Systems - 17 May 2000

Part 2 — Antenna Measurement

9. Antenna Range Measurements - April 1998

10. Antenna Measurements using Sun Noise - April 1998

Part 3 —Computer Analysis of Antennas

11. Parabolic Dish Feeds - Performance Analysis - March 1998

12. Pattern Calculation and Phase Analysis - October 1999

13.

Software Page

Downloads:
HDL_ANT.exe version 3b3 and Source code
FEEDPATT.exe
PHASEPAT.exe
Periscopegain.xls
Slotantenna.xls