Highly Recommended
Books on Antennas

Serge Stroobandt, ON4AA

Copyright 2002–2018, licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

My favourites

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

John Devoldere, ON4UN,
ON4UN’s Low-Band DXing,
ARRL, 5th Edition, 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0872598560
Alois Krischke, DJ0TR,
(originally by Karl Rothammel, Y21BK),
Rothammels Antennenbuch,
DARC Verlag, 13. Auflage, 2013
Ham 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.
William I. Orr, W6SAI,
W6SAI HF Antenna Handbook,
CQ Communications, Inc., 1996,
ISBN-13: 978-0943016153
Raymond 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.”
Jerry Sevick, W2FMI,
Transmission Line Transformers,
Noble Publishing Corporation, 4th Edition, 2001
ISBN: 1-884932-18-5
Amidon Tech Data Book,
Amidon, Inc., 2000 Edition
Peter 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!
Robert Schetgen, KU7G,
Vertical Antenna Classics,
ARRL, 1995
ISBN-13: 978-0872595217
Les Moxon, G6XN,
HF Antennas for All Locations,
RSGB, 2nd Edition, 1993
ISBN: 1-872309-15-1

EU book sellers

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Hard to find books

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