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I also acknowledge the feedback and many comments from students, too numerous to
name, including several who have contacted me from afar. I continue to be open and
grateful for this feedback and can be reached at john.buck@ece.gatech.edu. Many
suggestions were made that I considered constructive and actionable. I regret that
not all could be incorporated because of time restrictions. Creating this book was a
team effort, involving several outstanding people at McGraw-Hill. These include my
publisher, Raghu Srinivasan, and sponsoring editor, Peter Massar, whose vision and
encouragement were invaluable, Robin Reed, who deftly coordinated the production
phase with excellent ideas and enthusiasm, and Darlene Schueller, who was my
guide and conscience from the beginning, providing valuable insights, and jarring me
into action when necessary. Typesetting was supervised by Vipra Fauzdar at Glyph
International, who employed the best copy editor I ever had, Laura Bowman. Diana
Fouts (Georgia Tech) applied her vast artistic skill to designing the cover, as she has
done for the previous two editions. Finally, I am, as usual in these projects, grateful
to a patient and supportive family, and particularly to my daughter, Amanda, who
assisted in preparing the manuscript.
John A. Buck
Marietta, Georgia
December, 2010

On the cover: Radiated intensity patterns for a dipole antenna, showing the cases
for which the wavelength is equal to the overall antenna length (red), two-thirds the
antenna length (green), and one-half the antenna length (blue).