A more detailed explanation of how the Antenna Toolbox works

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Is there a document providing more details about the Antenna Toolbox, beyond the Getting Started, Reference, User Guide etc. I am trying to use the toolbox to model antenna arrays and have various questions for which no answers seem available in the documentation. To give just one example: when creating an array, say a linear array, you can model inactive elements (which are called "dead elements" in the documents) by using an AmplitudeTaper with zero entries for the inactive elements. But there does not seem to be a way of specifying the load (the impedance across the feedpoint) of the inactive elements. Yet the EH field produced by the array will clearly depend on how the inactive elements are loaded. So where can I find out information about the loading of these elements? Ideally I would want to control the loading, but if I can't at least I need to know what the program computing the EH fields is using. I have quite a few other such questions but will not attempt to list them here, in the hope that there is a more detailed document which will answer them

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Steven Lord
Steven Lord on 1 May 2017
I'm not sure there is additional documentation of the type you describe beyond the User Guide. I recommend that you contact Technical Support (using the Contact Us link in the upper-right corner of this page) and ask the Support staff your questions. The Support staff can also file an enhancement request on your behalf asking that the answers to some or all of your questions be added to the documentation, if you feel the answers would be useful to users of the toolbox.

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