"Introduction to antennas" - an antenna training DVD

Understanding antenna characteristics and how they are effected by their surroundings is essential to obtaining the best performance from communications assets. Communications personnel responsible for the choice, configuration and orientation of antennas, and/or frequency management, rely on this knowledge for daily performance of their duties. The HMAS Cerberus radio frequency management course regularly delivers such training to a wide range of students, both from Australasia and South East Asia. Students have diverse academic backgrounds and experience, and may not have English as a first language. Because of this, teaching of underlying concepts needs to be addressed with a minimum of detailed mathematics. A comprehensive range of image-based training material developed privately by the author has been captured on a DVD entitled "Introduction to antennas". This paper discusses the DVD and some of the material.