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Acknowledgments
As with other fields, in engineering and the sciences virtually all advances in
knowledge build upon accomplishments and results that are the work of others.
Thus, an overview volume such as this must necessarily draw upon and
reflect the collective wisdom of the larger community of contributors to the state of the
art. To identify all such individuals would require a second book, even larger than this
one.
However, certain people who provided specific guidance, inspiration, and resources
should not go unrecognized. In particular:
Guy Olinger, K2AV; Jim Lux, W6RMK; Tom Rauch, W8JI; Jim Brown, K9AY; and
Chuck Counselman, W1HIS—exemplary members of a cadre that is advancing the
collective state of the art in radio communications technology by freely
disseminating and sharing their considerable knowledge, analytic skills, and
experimental results with others via the Internet;
W. L. Myers, K1GQ, for a near-lifetime of stimulating dialog and many kindnesses,
and for introducing me to cocoaNEC, antenna modeling software for the Macintosh
by Kok Chen, W7AY;
Roy Lewallen, W7EL, the author of EZNEC, and Dan Maguire, AC6LA, for NEC-2
modeling guidance;
Professors Amir Fariborz (SUNY Institute of Technology) and Orlando Baiocchi
(University of Washington/Tacoma Institute of Technology) for making
electromagnetics interesting and a lot more fun during my second “tour” around
the EM classroom; and
James Rautio, AJ3K, author of the first antenna modeling software (Annie) I ever
used, who has leveraged his unparalleled appreciation of James Clerk Maxwell’s
accomplishments into concrete projects to help preserve Maxwell’s legacy for
generations to come.
In amateur radio, those who provide assistance to newcomers to the hobby are
known as Elmers. Some of us can point to a single such Elmer; others, to many. Long
ago, I was fortunate to have many, virtually all of whom have since passed on. In the
area of antennas, one deserves posthumous recognition:
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