I.. Don't actually know, I've just cobbled together information over the years. My dad worked in an electronics workshop but never taught me anything. There's a good intro to electronics course on udemy and if you're serious about it, try get the book The Art of Electronics, its like an electronics bible.
Thank you for your detailed reply, I really appreciate it. It answers my question and raises a whole bunch more :D, I think I need to brush up on general RF and get a better understanding of how it actually works. I shall do some youtubing and reading on it. I found a really good pdf that discussed antenna design but a lot of it I didn't understand, so I'm going to need to learn a bit more.
Ill also take a look at the drone antennas too.
Thanks again for your help.
Probably the most unpopular opinion here but PowerShell.
My main reason is that it's extremely easy to learn and is a good intro to object orientated programming.
People bash it but it's extremely easy to inspect objects, get any properties and methods associated with that object or class, walk through all the properties of the object and transform that into whatever you need.
It has a very fast turnaround time when developing code as you can run tiny snippets at a time and understand their outputs before moving to the next bit.
I'm not a Dev and end up having to write python from time to time and I hate it. At one point I just needed to understand an object in a variable and I couldn't do it, the command dir exists but it didn't give me any of the info I needed. There's a function in PowerShell called Get-Member (alias: gm) that you can pipe anything to and it will show you all those details of the object.
It helped me tremendously when I was just starting out.
Its super powerful, it can do anything C# can do because it's built on it, you can also run inline C, C# and C++ code with on the fly compilation.
It's also OSS and cross platform.
This all seems really complicated but at the same time super interesting. Thanks for the recommendation.