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Re: [TowerTalk] NEC rotate wire

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] NEC rotate wire
From: jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 11:11:53 -0700
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On 7/9/19 9:58 AM, David Gilbert wrote:

Yes, but what he apparently wants to do is set the wire length while horizontal and then rotate the wire to the desired angle, which avoids a manual calculation of the new end point.

EZNEC+ has that capability built in to its NEC interface, but apparently Felipe is using a different NEC application.

In 4nec2, you can do a
SY L = 10               ' length
SY ANG = 0              ' direction

GW {stuff} L*COS(ANG), L*SIN(ANG),H,Radius


But if  you're running bare NEC then GM cards are how you'd do it.

I either use 4nec2, or python that builds a NEC deck. More of the latter recently.

If you want to know about dielectric losses, effective height, and feedpoint Z for short dipoles on the lunar surface, let me know.

Or the pattern when a thin wire antenna is bent by the spacecraft rotatational acceleration - use the python to calculate the shape of the wire, generate a stack of GW cards, run the model. Who cares if the NEC deck is several hundred lines long.

(I think that in some cases, one might be able to use the catenary card from NEC4 for this)





73,
Dave   AB7E


On 7/9/2019 9:23 AM, Wes Attaway (N5WA) wrote:
It seems like you could just give the far end a new coordinate in the
desired direction and leave the other end connected to the vertical wire
end.

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Wes Attaway (N5WA)
(318) 393-3289 - Shreveport, LA
Computer/Cellphone Forensics
AttawayForensics.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of PY1NB
- Felipe Ceglia
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 10:29 AM
To: Tower and HF antenna construction topics.
Subject: [TowerTalk] NEC rotate wire

Hello,

When modeling an inverted L (tag 1 is the vertical part, tag 2 is the
horizontal), is there a quick way or trick to rotate the horizontal wire
(tag 2) and keep it connected to the vertical wire (tag 1)?

When I try to rotate it using the move/copy (GM) it gets away from the
vertical wire.

Thanks,

Felipe CT7ANO, PY1NB

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