An Introduction to Antennas and RF Propagation

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Course Presenter
Prof Don Sinnott
Don Sinnott is Adjunct Professor of Radar Systems with Adelaide University. He is a graduate of Melbourne University (BE 1966, MEngSc 1967) and Syracuse University, NY USA (PhD 1972). His research career has been primarily with DSTO where he carried out research and development in radio and propagation aspects supporting a number of defence systems, most particularly the Jindalee over the horizon radar. From 1988 to 2000 he served as Chief of a number of DSTO research and policy Divisions and was CEO CSSIP and Professor of Sensor Systems with UniSA 2000-2003. He has published widely in the field of antennas and propagation and is a Fellow of the IEEE and IEAust.

Mode of Delivery
TBA

Course Summary
This is a three-day course covering the basics of radio frequency antennas and propagation for the non-specialist. The course treats antennas as transducers between guided (circuit) transmission and free-space propagation and uses, as much as possible, a scalar network approach rather than that of vector field calculus. Within the broad classes of 'wire', 'aperture' and 'array' antennas a review approach allows attendees to gain a descriptive understanding of principles that are widely applicable. Propagation aspect of the course address the basics of free-space transmission and reception, interaction with material objects (including the ground), scattering and ionospheric transmission.