Basic NEC with broadcast applications

This book describes a new and almost unique tool for the radio engineer. It is a comprehensive document explaining and showing how to use NEC 2 to design directional AM broadcast antennas employing multiple excitation sources with field ratios as inputs. Basic NEC with Broadcast Applications addresses computer modeling of MF directional broadcast antennas and illustrates the assets and liabilities of the Numerical Electromagnetic Code (NEC). The book's how-to approach reveals the fundamentals of NEC operation, it teaches broadcast applications and shows the reader how to use NEC-2 to: model non-radiating networks, verify calculations, detune unused towers, design top-loaded and skirted antennas, minimize coding by moving and duplicating structures, and much more! The book is an invaluable toolkit for the design and analysis of broadcast antenna arrays. Apart from the very clearly and explicitly presented method of using NEC-2, the book includes a CD that demonstrates its use and provides a usable tool for directional antenna design. But it does not stop there. NEC -2 tends to be less than user friendly to the broadcaster therefore this book leads the user by the hand through the va