Home Labs Stories Play with antenna design

PLAY WITH ANTENNA DESIGN

image story

ABOUT THIS STORY


Posted on April 12, 2018



Beginner
1 Hour

Introduction

References & History

4NEC2

Introduction


A lot of the questions in the forum can be answered by playing with antenna design. This venerable program, originally written in Fortran, used to cost thousands of dollars and was classed as a munition - making it illegal to export (without permission). Here it is now free but still valid.

Short worked example