The book covers antenna fundamentals, the half-wave dipole, transmission line impedance matching techniques, a Smith chart tutorial, and also explores antenna modeling software and network analyzer ...

Smith charts almost seem magical, but they are really sort of an analog computer. The color of the line and even the direction of an arrow make a difference, and [Ralph] explains it all very simply.

The Smith chart appeared in 1939 (Ref. 1) as a graph-based method of simplifying the complex math (that is, calculations involving variables of the form x + jy) needed to describe the characteristics ...