[TowerTalk] NEC 5.0 ???

[Lux, Jim]

On 3/11/21 12:15 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
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>> "Jerry Burke, the primary author of the antenna-modeling software NEC,
>> died on February 14. He had been suffering from cancer. NEC (numerical
>> electromagnetics code) evolved out of a program called BRACT, which
>> Burke and others developed in 1967. The most common public version is
>> NEC-2. -- Thanks to Jim Breakall, WA3FET"
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> I didn't realize that the roots of NEC went back this far.
> Jerry produced amazing results especially considering what he
> had to work with in 1967 (IBM 360, keypunch, line printer, etc).
> Probably written in the wonderful language of Fortran.
> Those were the days. 


Found it..

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/193922195.pdf

The Numerical Electromagnetics Code (NEC) – A Brief History