[CW] NEC and xnec2c for Linux - Was: Wire Specification (GW)

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via CW]

Hello Ron and CW List members,

Ron just sent a message to the CW List - it was no doubt meant for the
Antennas reflector, but since we uncovered much info about NEC and
xnec2c for Linux, I repeat it here.

Two tutorials as sent by Ron are attached.

If you are interested and this helps, save the message, otherwise
forgive the OT post by both of us.

73
DR

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Ron asked if there was a program that ran under Linux / *nix that
could display nec files.

I have found the one that I use:  xnec2c

For more details see:

http://www.qsl.net/5b4az/

Kamel Mostafa has published a Private Package Archive (PPA) for Ubuntu here:

https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/ubuntu/xnec2c

A youtube video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgYfU7wghso
Part 1 is missing but ii is locally mirrored here: http://ai4qr.com/

Windows has the files here:  http://www.qsl.net/4nec2/

Arch Linux has xnec2c in AUR.

1 aur/xnec2c 3.2-1 (6)
    GTK+ Antenna EM Modeling Client
2 aur/xnecview 1.36-1 (0)
    X-windows NEC Antenna simulator

W5NA mentions that the program has a converter to convert from EZNEC
to 4nec2 type files.

http://www.n5na.net/s9y/index.php?/archives/17-4nec2-Antenna-Modeling-Software.html

Maybe the answer is there, I haven't found the converter, but it is
said to exist.

73
David N1EA

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Ron wrote:

  If you don't have these:

 https://nec2c.googlecode.com/files/nec2prt1.pdf
 https://nec2c.googlecode.com/files/nec2prt2.pdf
 https://nec2c.googlecode.com/files/nec2prt3.pdf

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The wrong way.

In some private emails resulting from the "Basic Antenna Modeling
tutorial" thread, Bill mentioned that he was thinking about spending
$20 to purchase the EZNEC equivalents of a package of NEC models that
he has.  This is just a reminder that, if you have Microsoft Excel, you
can use the free AutoEZ demo program to do the same thing.  With AutoEZ
you can open .nec or .ant models and then save in .ez format for use
with EZNEC.

For details see http://ac6la.com/autoez.html then “Miscellaneous
Advanced Topics” then “Read NEC, AO, and MMANA-GAL Files”.  After you
have opened a NEC or AO model you can then use the “Save Model As”
button and save in .ez format.
 Then you can open that saved file with EZNEC.  The free demo version
of AutoEZ has a segment limitation for actual processing of the model
but to just convert from one format to another there are no
restrictions.

Of course I hope that you might eventually consider a purchase of
AutoEZ.
However, if all you want to do is file type conversions the free demo
will work just fine.

  From:

   http://lists.contesting.com/_towertalk/2014-01/msg00418.html

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Just more information.


http://ag6cb.blogspot.com/2013/09/model-dipole-going-from-sketch-to-xyz.html


http://www.nec2.org/part_3/cards/gw.html

--
  Ron  KA4INM - Youvan's corollary:
                Every action results in unwanted side effects.
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