@proceedings {967, title = {Radio Wave Propagation and Antenna Fundamentals}, year = {2025}, month = {03/2025}, publisher = {HamSCI}, address = {Newark, NJ}, abstract = {
This tutorial gives a basic overview of radio propagation and the fundamentals of antennas. Topics include
The Nature of Radio Waves, Dipole Antenna Characteristics, Line of Sight Propagation, Diffraction and Multipath Interference, What a BALUN does, The Isotropic Antenna and Concept of Gain, Examples of Gain Producing Antennas and How They Work, Transmission Line Basics, and Selected Antenna Stories.\ 
}, author = {Steve Cerwin} }