[Antennas] MMANA and EZNEC Tutorials

[Bob Stein]

NA4FM (Buck) wrote:

> Are there any tutorials for EZNEC and MMANA on the web?  I finally broke
> down and acquired the ARRL Antenna book which includes EZNEC-ARRL, a
> very limited version of EZNEC.  Before this, I downloaded a copy of
> MMANA and tried using it, but not with much success.  I obviously have
> much to learn.  
> 
> I went through the EZNEC tutorial, but all I learned is how to make a
> dipole.  I have a couple of ideas about antennas I want to build and
> test but I would much prefer to model them and see how they work before
> investing time and money into another pile of scrap metal.
> 
> One of the antennas I would like to model is the multiple dipole in
> various forms.  For example, a single feed line into three or more
> dipoles with a common feed point but parallel wire lengths at various
> spacing.  Also to see the difference if I put parallel vertical wires to
> feed the same dipoles.
> 
> Thanks,
> Buck
> NA4FM
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Download the demo version of EZNEC from http://eznec.com/.  It has a 
very good tutorial.

Bob, w6nbi