Entitled “How To Build A Good Antenna”, it uses the design and set-up of a simple quarter-wave groundplane antenna as a handle to introduce the viewer to the key topics.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Independent tests appear to support an inventor's claim that his skunk-works antenna design can shrink antenna size by up to 70 percent while maintaining equivalent sensitivity and ...

The antenna, in this case, is essentially a quarter-wave antenna with a ground plane and reflector arrangement. After the obligatory chalk talk, he breaks out the vector network analyzer and shows ...

Last year MACHINE DESIGN reported that inventor Rob Vincent, an employee of the Physics Dept. at the Univ. of Rhode Island, had shrunk the size of dipole antennas, without compromising ...