What a wonderful Web we weave! Not unlike amateur
radio, this new and explosive Internet technology opens up lines of direct
person-to-person communication all around the world. This serves to bring the planet a
little closer together and make for a friendlier place.
The articles and editorials
in this exciting online magazine are thought-provoking and are aimed at accelerating your
accumulation of knowledge about one of the most important aspects of amateur and commercial
radio. And, best of all about the new web technology, is that you can not only view the
magazine online, but you can
print
out the articles or
save to disk for later offline viewing! That way, you have a
permanent copy.
One of this magazine’s main goals is to provide a place for the exchange of ideas and publication of antenna and radio-related subjects from all parts of the globe so we could all share and learn how things are done from all viewpoints in this ever-shrinking world. We am happy to say this goal is being met quite well with writers from some 25 or more countries now represented in the thousands of pages in this magazine. Our readership now covers more than 200 countries!
Every month there is a From the Shack column is primarily for "Guest Editorials" to provide a podium for our readers to voice their opinions to the rest of the world too. This is a chance for readers to get on their "soapbox" and speak about antenna and radio-related subjects. Don't miss these interesting views about anything and everything about radio and antenna systems!
We are especially pleased about the regular monthly column Antenna Modeling by L.B. Cebik, W4RNL. LB also makes various feature contributions of radio-related articles to the monthly issues and is our Technical Editor. Sadly, LB passed away in April 2008 although his new articles will still appear through mid-2010 from our advance-article storage.
Our magazine about antennas and radio-related subjects would certainly not be complete without coverage on the subject of propagation — the very basics of communications. Yes, indeed, we have another fine monthly column specifically on this subject called Propagation, written by our regular columnist, Marcel H. De Canck, ON5AU of Belgium. After running 7 years and 3 months, this column ended with the June 2009 issue. Marcel believed he had exhausted this subject of propagation, but now will contribute monthly articles on other topics as feature articles.
But we haven't stopped there! We're proud of yet another regular monthly column Ham WorkShop written by various members of our writing team about clever how-to radio stuff!
Robert Gulley, AK3Q recently joined our writer team with his monthly series, "NewcomerNotes." As the title implies, this is designed for the newbie portion of our audience, or a refresher for older hands.
On the other end of the spectrum, if you enjoy theory and mathematics, we have that covered too with the monthly contributions by Kirk T. McDonald, Professor of Physics at Princeton University.
Another knowledgeable writer joined our regular team after making several earlier contributions to the magazine. A retired NASA scientist and long-term Ham, L. Harold Allen, W4MMC is a tremendous source of technical information and we are glad he agreed to make it available here. Harold is a true rocket scientist! Harold was a big help to us in editing a couple of our book publications authored by the Russian author, Igor Grigorov.
A column written by Publisher, Jack L. Stone and aptly called Stone's Throw! is presented monthly, among other things, to keep readers informed about this journals progress, new technical developments, plans for the future, and to introduce the authors and their subjects in each month's new issue.
Plus, you will find the works of numerous other interesting authors representing amateur and commercial radio for more than 25 countries such as André Saunders, GM3VLB (Scotland), Morris Jones, AD6ZH, Alan Boswell (UK), Jacques Audet, VE2ADX (Canada), Dragoslav Dobričić, YU1AW (Serbia), Ian Hopkins, G4WUH (UK), Eli Kovo, 4X4LH (Israel), Augie "Gus" Hansen, KB0YH, Robert Gulley, AK3Q, Edward J. Shortridge, W4JOQ, Rudy Severns, N6LF, Martin Steyer, DK7ZB, Stephen B Hajducek, N2CKH, Kevin Schmidt, W9CF, Kenneth Macleish, W7TX, Bill Graham, VE3ETK (Canada), Luiz Amaral, PY1LL/PY4LC (Brazil), Robert K. Zimmerman (Canada), J.M. Bourdereau, MD, F5LCI (France), Vadim Demidov (Russia), Claudio Re, I1RFQ (Italy), Arnie Coro, CO2KK (Cuba), Valentín Trainotti (Argentina), Jack Belrose, PhD, VE2CV, (Canada), Dr. Kirk T. McDonald, (Princeton), Dr. Haim Matzner, (Israel), F.M. Griffee, N4FG, Grant Bingeman, KM5KG, Dr. Dan Handelsman, N2DT, Dr. David Jefferies (UK), Fred E. Ellis, AC5SO, Rod Brink, KQ6F, L. Harold Allen, W4MMC (formally with NASA & JPL), Fathi Kabbary (Egypt), Igor Grigorov, RK3ZK (Russia), Prof. Maurice C. Hately (Scotland), GM3HAT, Dr. Brian G. Stewart, MM1DVD (Scotland), Ralph Holland, VK1BRH (Australia), Tom Cox, KA5NEE, Joel Hungerford, KB1EGI, Dr. Jef Verborgt, Pascal Veeckmans, ON4CFC (Belgium), Dave Cuthbert, WX7G, William C. (Bill) Miller, KT4YE, Phil Harman, VK6APH, Edward Lawrence, WA5SWD, Robert Wilson, AL7KK, August Hoecker, W8MIA, Heikki Antman, OH2BGC (Finland), Hakan Widenstedt (Sweden), Werner Hödlmayr, DL6NDJ (Germany), Juergen Schaefer, DL7PE (Germany), Dan Richardson, K6MHE, Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP (South Africa), Uni Gran, LA6RHA/JW6RHA/JX6RHA (Norway), Osmo Tiinanen,OH8MT, (Finland), Jim Gray, W1XU (SK), John R. Somers, KC3YB, Ben Smith, W4KSY, Ron Nott, K5YNR, Ted Hart, W5QJR, W.R. Booher, W6TM, Howard Cann, KA3MRX, James G. Lee, W6VAT, Glenn Thomas, W5INU, Lawrence Earl, N7VF, Wilfred Caron (SK), Bill Nogues, W5GVE, William Lee, N5WRX, Jean-Nicol Dubé, VE2BPD (Canada), Mel Murphey, W6VEJ, Bob Lanning, W6OPO, Dudley Chapman, WA1X, Jim Westbrook, K1FD, Scott Harwood, K4VWK and Roger J. Hoffman, WB9BXT to mention just a few. Some are well-known inventors, many do research and all are experimenters in one way or another. (Those without countries noted are USA.)
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Antennas are your link to the world!
Regardless of what kind of radio, or how expensive it is, the one thing it must have is an antenna to enable it to work. No matter how much money invested, your money will be wasted unless you have a decent antenna connected to your equipment. That is where antenneX© comes in. antenneX© is about antennas and related subjects, such as propagation, feed lines, ground systems, and of course, antennas of all sorts. Our primary goal is to provide a place for exchange of information and publish some thought-provoking ideas about ways to get out the strongest signal possible for specific needs. And, if one reads our articles with an open mind, who knows what solutions may be found to make this hobby even more fun. Our articles are written by some of the leading authorities on the subject.
antenneX© was originally published as a paper version beginning in 1988 and its readership quickly spread to some 45 countries within 12 months! The subscribers grew to some 14,000 and they loved this magazine as shown by such rapid growth around the world. The paper version has been discontinued because it was just too costly to distribute worldwide. But, the Internet now makes it possible to bring this exciting publication ONLINE for the entire world at an affordable cost.
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