I'm looking for a paper reference to basic trapped antenna design and performance, preferably in something like an IRE or AIEE journal (I'm sure it's pre-IEEE). I'm writing a paper and I make a refe
Hey Jim, As a young kid, wanting to be a ham, I would study the various ARRL Antenna books (different editions) about the DZZ antenna, often the W3DZZ, or 3DZZ ... Here's an APA type cite that might
Author: Jim Brown via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 17:12:39 -0800
W3DZZ was local to me when I lived in Chicago, and I met him near the end of his life. He also built and sold inductively loaded antennas that he correctly stated were not traps -- I measured some an
This is the earliest reference I could find: Morgan, H. K. A multifrequency tuned antenna system,. Electronics, 13, pp. 42-8. August 1940 If you look at the reference list item 12 in this paper it ap
perfect... that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1141000 Abstract: The trap-loaded cylindrical antenna is a cylindrical antenna having one or more t
Here's an intersting one - can't find the actual paper, but it seems to be an antenna with a bunch of traps spaced in a log periodic way. I also found someone who had one with 13 wires and 39 trap
Carl Smith and Pete Johnson, who was my boss on one of co-op jobs while was an EE student at U of Cincy, wrote the FCC engineering Rules after WWII. Carl ran an engineering school in Cleveland; Pete
More interesting stuff.. Here's what's probably the original patent (oh for the days when a patent was only 3 pages...) https://patents.google.com/patent/US2229865A/en Here's an intersting one -
Here's a more current reference, with good citations: P. R. Winniford, et al., "New Analysis and Design Techniques for Arbitrary Reactance Trap Dipoles," IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation