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Serge Stroobandt, ON4AA

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My favourites

Here are a number of books that I enjoyed reading. The books in order of personal preference are:

  1. ON4UN’s Low-Band DXingJohn Devoldere, ON4UN,
    ON4UN’s Low-Band DXing,
    ARRL, 5th Edition, 2011
    ISBN-13: 978-0872598560
  2. Rothammels AntennenbuchAlois Krischke, DJ0TR,
    (originally by Karl Rothammel, Y21BK),
    Rothammels Antennenbuch,
    DARC Verlag, 13. Auflage, 2013
  3. Ham Radio CR-ROMsHam Radio Magazine CD-ROM Set,
    CQ Communications, Inc., 1968–1990

    Albeit not a book, this complete collection of back issues of the extremely popular Ham Radio Magazine beholds a vault of very well written, timeless antenna articles that will make you better understand current antenna design trends. John Devoldere, in his seminal ON4UN’s Low-Band DXing, refers to many of these articles.

    William Griffith, VE3WGX, provides the magazine´s by-topic cumulative index on his website. However, if you rather would like to run a text search, you are better off downloading the text-searchable cumulative index.

  4. W6SAIWilliam I. Orr, W6SAI,
    W6SAI HF Antenna Handbook,
    CQ Communications, Inc., 1996,
    ISBN-13: 978-0943016153
  5. Mack & SevickRaymond Mack and Jerry Sevick (W2FMI SK),
    Sevick’s Transmission Line Transformers: Theory and Practice,
    SciTech Publishing; 5th Edition, 2014
    ISBN-13: 978-1891121975

    Gene: “I also own the 4th edition, which I also like a great deal, but the 5th edition is organized in a manner that’s much easier to understand.”

  6. SevickJerry Sevick, W2FMI,
    Transmission Line Transformers,
    Noble Publishing Corporation, 4th Edition, 2001
    ISBN: 1-884932-18-5
  7. AmidonAmidon Tech Data Book,
    Amidon, Inc., 2000 Edition
  8. KnotsPeter Owen,
    The Adlard Coles Book of Knots,
    Adlard Coles Nautical, 3rd Edition, 2006
    ISBN: 0-7136-8152-7

    …or any other Peter Owen book about knots!

  9. Vertical Antenna ClassicsRobert Schetgen, KU7G,
    Vertical Antenna Classics,
    ARRL, 1995
    ISBN-13: 978-0872595217
  10. HF Antennas for All LocationsLes Moxon, G6XN,
    HF Antennas for All Locations,
    RSGB, 2nd Edition, 1993
    ISBN: 1-872309-15-1

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