Monopole Antennas

Melvin M. Weiner is a retired Member of the Technical Staff, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts. The author of numerous professional publications, he holds five patents and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He received the B.S. (1956) and M.S. (1956) degrees in electrical engineering from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

• Preface, Acknowledgments, Part I: Monopole Elements on Disk Ground Planes in Free Space, 1: Introduction, 2: Circuit Representation, 3: Models in Which the Current Distribution on the Monopole Element is Initially Known, 4: Models in Which the Current Distributions on the Monopole Element and Ground Plane Are Both Initially Unknown, 5: Comparison with Experimental Results, 6: Applications Utilizing Electrically Small Elements, Part II: Monopole Elements on Disk, Radial-Wire, and Mesh Ground Planes in Proximity to Flat Earth, 7: Influence of Proximity to Earth, 8: Characterization of Antenna Parameters, 9: Models in the Absence of a Ground Plane, 10: Disk Ground Planes, 11: Radial-Wire Ground Planes, 12: Wire-Mesh Ground Planes, 13: System Performance, Appendix A: Computer Plots and Printouts of Numerical Results, Appendix B: Computer Programs, Appendix C: Evaluation of Sommerfeld-King Integrals for Surface-Wave Fields, Appendix D: Beam Pointing Errors Caused by a Nonhomogeneous Earth, References, Index