This is the Handbook of the antennas in HF, VHF and UHF, covering the simple double yagi associations to phase and other parables for EME traffic. There is also a single comprehensive book (and indeed free), is that of W1GHZ. But the read level is not the same. A beginner will be lost with the W1GHZ and will be accompanied by the Antenna Book.
Read this book without a minimum of equipment (power meter, reference load vector analyzer or antenna analyzer, noise bridge ...) is quite vain. This is not a book to place on a shelf is a book that calls for implementation.
Oh, one last tip: do NOT pay it! because we never will make you. This is the third I buy, it said. 73 '
