Notes Uploaded on July 15, 2011
Carl Baum has been editing and publishing these "Notes" for over four decades. This was one of his many good deeds to our technical community. We continue this tradition with one difference: There
will be no hard-copy distribution of the Notes. The manuscripts that are received are reviewed, revised and uploaded to http://www.ece.unm.edu/summa/notes. This notice announces that 14 new publications have been uploaded.
In SSN553, Giri has reported on modifying a commercial IRA for use in monostatic impulse radar. Kumar and Baum investigate radiation of THz frequencies from switched oscillators in SSN554. Farr describes antenna parameters in the time domain useful for pulsed antennas in SSN555. In SSN556, Vega et al., describe various impedance transformers to drive a 100 Ohm half-IRA from a 50 Ohm source.
CESDN69 and IN614 were the last couple of Notes authored by Carl Baum prior to his untimely demise. His writings are extensive in quality, quantity and variety. Larry West has stimulating ideas on various aspects of Lightning interaction to electronic equipment as described in IN615, IN616, IN617 and IN618. Nitsch et al., look at the pulsed excitations of resonators in IN619. In IN620, Kohlberg has a new way of looking at critical infrastructure components and how they may recover following a malicious event.
Tesche and Giri look at the "old" problem of complex natural frequencies of a wire antenna/scatterer in IN621, prompted by a recent paper in IEEE Transactions on AP-S that uses a variational principle approach. Finally Farr et al., describe an automated way of RF effects testing in MN63.
On behalf of the editorial board of the Note Series, I wish to thank the authors and reviewers of these publications for their contributions in maintaining the high-standards of the Note Series set by Carl Baum. I am also grateful to Chuck Reuben for his assistance.
Happy reading!
Dr. D. V. Giri, Chief Editor
Giri@DVGiri.com; http://www.dvgiri.com
SSN 553 Modifications to a Commercial Impulse Radiating Antenna (IRA) for Accurate Mono-static Impulse Radar Application, D. V. Giri, February 2011
SSN 554 Maximizing Energy in Terahertz Pulse Radiation from a Switched Oscillator, Carl E. Baum and Prashanth Kumar, July, 2010
SSN 555 A Standard for Characterizing Antenna Performance in the Time Domain, Everett G. Farr, April 2011
SSN 556 Design, Realization and Experimental Test of a Coaxial Exponential Transmission Line Adaptor for a Half Impulse Radiating Antenna, Felix Vega, Farhad Rachidi, Nicolas Mora, Nestor Peña and Francisco Roman, June 2011
IN 614 Propagation on Circulant Multiconductor Transmission Lines with Random Wire Interchanges, Carl E. Baum, July 2010
IN 615 In-Flight versus Ground-Test Lightning Interactions in Composite Airframes Effects of External vs. Internal inductance. An Errata to Everything Previously Published, Larry West, April 2011
IN 616 Lightning Induced Waveforms 4 and 5A in Composite Airframes, The Inability of Copper Braid to Shield It, and A New Layered Copper Braid and High-mu Foil Shield. Interaction Note 608 Revision A, Larry West, April 2011
IN 617 Allocating Indirect Lightning to Cables & Boxes at Program Inception Application of Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws, Faraday's Law & Scaling by Geometric, Electrical, & Spectral Parameters, Larry West, April 2011
IN 618 Assessment of and Recommendations for RTCA/DO-160F Section 22 Lightning Induced Transient Susceptibility, Larry West, April 2011
IN 619 Pulsed Excitations of Resonators, Jürgen Nitsch, Sergey Tkachenko, and Stefan Potthast, September 2010
IN 620 Dynamics of Recovery of Coupled Infrastructures Following a Natural
Disaster or Malicious Insult, Ira Kohlberg, Joe Clark and Phillip Morrison,
March 2011
IN 621 On the Natural Oscillation Frequencies of a Straight Wire Antenna, F. M. Tesche and D. V. Giri , June 2011
CESDN 69 A Fully Symmetric Waveguide-Cavity Microwave Pulse Compressor, Carl E. Baum, June 2010
MN 63 Automated and Adaptive RF Effects Testing, Everett G. Farr, Leland H. Bowen, W. Scott Bigelow, Robert L. Gardner, and Peter Finlay, March 2011
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