Book reviews - A handbook of conical antennas and scatterers

This rather specialized monograph on conical radiators is an interesting change of scope for the author from his previous book on slow wave structures. Until recent years, conical antenna theory and in fact conical antennas were mostly of interest to graduate students. In the interests of science, the vigorous efforts on conical scatterers with reduced RCS reawakened interest in cones. And in the interests of science OS, the work of Ross and VanEtten showed that conical antennas can be extremely good for very broadband and very short pulse applications.