Joe Carr's loop antenna handbook

by Joseph J. Carr

133 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Jeffrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a revision of my previous review. I am reducing my rating from 4 stars to 3 as Carr's omissions and lapses have become less understandable. Specifically, on the Internet one can find the kind of RF push-pull transformer that Carr just assumes we kind of know what it is. One can find that these are DIY wound on toroids or binocular cores. Also, he does not state that the parts he specifies in his circuits generally aren't as specific as what he has. And his shielded loop antenna probably suffers from excess capacitance from not taking into consideration the distance from shield to antenna.

My previous review:

Borrowed this book, Joe Carr's Loop Antenna Handbook, from the public library. Started reading it yesterday; finished reading it today. Doubtless you could find its wisdom scattered about the Internet, but in Carr's book format you can be reasonably assured that the presentation gets things covered from beginning to end without the gaps that one risks in relying on poking around on the Internet. I like the book. Be that as it may there are numerous typographical errors and more annoyingly lapses where Carr does such things as presenting schematics and leaves off showing component values (or parts numbers) where they are most needed (such as transformers)--this is my reason for the four star rating rather than five.