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+#+TITLE: Daily Journal
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+#+DESCRIPTION: My daily journal entry
+#+AUTHOR: Preston Pan
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+* Thursday, 03 July 2025
+** 20:05 
+I am currently studying more radio mathematics in order to fully understand
+how certain radio modes work, and secondly how antennas work on a deeper level.
+I've gained some insight into antennas already by analyzing the radiation patterns
+of dipole antennas and loop antennas, particularly with the use of retarded potentials
+and certain simplifying assumptions regarding the strength of far-field radiation and the
+size of the dipole as well as the transmitting frequency.
+
+Additionally, I am studying many filter circuits that are used in superheterodyne circuits,
+and I am studying the structure of different transmitters such as AM, QAM, SSB, and FM
+transmitters. I hope to gain a fully functional understanding of these transmitters as well
+as an understanding of the different propagation methods (skywave, ground wave, moon bounce, scattering, etc...).
+Of course I already have an operational understanding of propagation, but I would like to understand
+these all from a mathematical perspective, and understand polarization with regards to scattering.