Windows based NEC programs was Re: [TowerTalk] K6STI YO / AO Programs?

[Pete Smith]

At 02:17 PM 11/9/03 -0800, Jim Lux wrote:
>EZ-NEC is a well respected Windows version of NEC.


The big problem with EZNEC, unfortunately, is that unless you buy the pro 
version for much more money it has a limit of 500 segments.  Try modeling a 
single-tower station on 10 or 15 meters, looking for interactions with all 
the other conductors (antennas, guys, etc.) and you'll quickly find this a 
difficult limitation to live with.

I should add that I use 4NEC 2 in conjunction with MultiNEC, because the 
latter does not provide antenna viewers, while the latest evolution of 
4NEC2 has a really neat Direct X antenna pattern and geometry viewer.  I 
have imported all of my EZNEC modeling files into MultiNEC; one of the very 
neat things MultiNEC does is to translate among the proprietary formats of 
the various other Windows-based programs, as well as vanilla NEC.


73, Pete N4ZR
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