[TowerTalk] NEC for Mac

[James Duffey]

Jim - I use CocoaNEC from W7AY:

< http://www.w7ay.net/site/Applications/cocoaNEC/ >

It works very well with a pretty good user interface. I have used it a lot to model a variety of antennas. It is unsupported, but Kok is good about answering questions about it. I think the source code is also available at that web site. It can also use the NEC-4 engine if you have that. 

At the risk of sending you back to Boot Camp/Parallels, if you are just modeling Yagis, YagiCad from VK2TIP is hard to beat for simplicity, a good interface and reasonable results.

Of course, as with any model, you must know a bit about the theory and practical application you are modeling to see if you are getting reasonable results out of it. Garbage in, gospel out. - Duffey KK6MC

 
On Dec 27, 2014, at 12:24 PM, towertalk-request at contesting.com wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know if there is a version of NEC4 compiled for the Mac? 
> More particularly, any pointers to build instructions?  I've got the 
> sources (legally), and I'm thinking about trying to build it for the Mac 
> OS X target. (I'm tired of running it in Parallels)

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KK6MC
James Duffey
Cedar Crest NM