[HCARC] Computer Programs
John Huecksteadt
johnh at beecreek.net
Thu Dec 15 13:52:55 EST 2011
Thanks, Kerry. What I would definitely be interested in is a lesson on using
ELNEC. I've had a copy for years but am intimidated by it. Ditto for VOCAP.
The input parameter are awe-inspiring at first glance. Maybe a good meeting
program or two here? -John/AC4CA
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1. 2011 Texas QSO Party - AC4CA John Hueckstead - Texas Single
Op CW Only WINNER! (John K5XA)
2. Re: 2011 Texas QSO Party - AC4CA John Hueckstead - Texas
SingleOp CW Only WINNER! (galeheise at windstream.net)
3. FOR SALE - TRIBANDERS - KT34XA and HyGain TH7-DX (John K5XA)
4. AC4CA's win (Bob Richie)
5. Computer Programs (Kerry Sandstrom)
6. Re: AC4CA's win (John Huecksteadt)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:13:32 -0600
From: "John K5XA" <k5xa at godfather-ridge.com>
Subject: [HCARC] 2011 Texas QSO Party - AC4CA John Hueckstead - Texas
Single Op CW Only WINNER!
To: <HCARC at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: 'John Huecksteadt' <johnh at beecreek.net>
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Please join me in sending a big CONGRATS to AC4CA John Hueckstead on his
First Place effort in the TQP Single Op CW Only category.
Way to Go CA!
K5XA
Results for the 2011 Texas QSO Party have been finalized and are now
available on the website at www.txqp.net. Thanks to all who participated and
congratulations to the following first place winners.
Texas Single Op CW Only - AC4CA
Texas Single Op Mixed - K5OT at K5TR
Texas Single Op Phone Only - K5QXR
Texas Single Op QRP - K5IID
Texas Multi-Op - W5CT at NR5M (NR5M, K5GA, K3TD)
Texas Mobile Single Op CW Only - N5NA
Texas Mobile Single Op Mixed - N5DO
Texas Mobile Single Op Phone Only - N5AUS Texas Mobile Multi-Op - N5TM
(N5TM, K5GQ)
Texas Club Aggregate Trophy - Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Non-Texas Single Op CW Only - VE3KZ
Non-Texas Single Op Mixed - NC4KW
Non-Texas Single Op Phone Only - KK7AC
Non-Texas Single Op QRP - N4JF
DX - DK2OY
See the website for additional details.
73/Chuck/NO5W
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:17:47 -0600
From: <galeheise at windstream.net>
Subject: Re: [HCARC] 2011 Texas QSO Party - AC4CA John Hueckstead -
Texas SingleOp CW Only WINNER!
To: <k5xa at godfather-ridge.com>, <HCARC at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: 'John Huecksteadt' <johnh at beecreek.net>
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John-
Great job!
Gale
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From: John K5XA
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Subject: [HCARC] 2011 Texas QSO Party - AC4CA John Hueckstead - Texas
SingleOp CW Only WINNER!
Please join me in sending a big CONGRATS to AC4CA John Hueckstead on his
First Place effort in the TQP Single Op CW Only category.
Way to Go CA!
K5XA
Results for the 2011 Texas QSO Party have been finalized and are now
available on the website at www.txqp.net. Thanks to all who participated and
congratulations to the following first place winners.
Texas Single Op CW Only - AC4CA
Texas Single Op Mixed - K5OT at K5TR
Texas Single Op Phone Only - K5QXR
Texas Single Op QRP - K5IID
Texas Multi-Op - W5CT at NR5M (NR5M, K5GA, K3TD)
Texas Mobile Single Op CW Only - N5NA
Texas Mobile Single Op Mixed - N5DO
Texas Mobile Single Op Phone Only - N5AUS Texas Mobile Multi-Op - N5TM
(N5TM, K5GQ)
Texas Club Aggregate Trophy - Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Non-Texas Single Op CW Only - VE3KZ
Non-Texas Single Op Mixed - NC4KW
Non-Texas Single Op Phone Only - KK7AC
Non-Texas Single Op QRP - N4JF
DX - DK2OY
See the website for additional details.
73/Chuck/NO5W
TxQP Coordinator
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:43:24 -0600
From: "John K5XA" <k5xa at godfather-ridge.com>
Subject: [HCARC] FOR SALE - TRIBANDERS - KT34XA and HyGain TH7-DX
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HCARC Members-
Before I go on eHam and CTDXCC with these antennas, I'd like to see if there
is someone local who'd be interested.
I used similar antennas at my station in Oklahoma, and they are great.
The antennas are new in the box. The boxes look a little ragged, but I'm
sure the antennas are pristine, and the manuals never taken out. They were
purchased, I estimate, in 1994 or 1995, and stored out of any weather since
then. The reason for the appearance of the boxes is that for ten years or
so, they were stored in a barn at the QTH of K5RX in Little Elm, TX. A
combination of hay and bird poop has contributed to the ragged look. They
were brushed off before moving to Kerrville.
If you might be interested and require more information, please email me
direct.
Tnx es 73 ...................... K5XA
k5xa at godfather-ridge.com
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:46:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Bob Richie <bob.k5yb at yahoo.com>
Subject: [HCARC] AC4CA's win
To: HCARC Reflector <HCARC at mailman.qth.net>
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Congratulations, John on your win. ?I suppose this will call for a Gatorade
shower at the next meeting. ?73 ?
Bob
K5YB
Kerrville, TX 78028
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:42:06 -0600
From: "Kerry Sandstrom" <kerryk5ks at hughes.net>
Subject: [HCARC] Computer Programs
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Hi Gang,
I don't know if any one is interested in new/old computer programs. There
is actually a very large number of excellent professional programs out there
that were written by/for the US government. The beauty of these US
Government programs are thye are well documented, run well, and are free.
That's free without quotation marks! As tavpayers, we have already paid for
them. Two of them with extensive ham radio applications are the ITS HF
Propagation suite which includes VOACAP and NEC. VOACAP is the descendant
of the manual procedure used by US government agencies since the 40's.
Virtually all the commercial propagation programs for sale to hams are based
on VOACAP. What you are paying for is the fancy GUI (Graphic User
Interface) when you buy one of them. I've shown various VOACAP outputs at
past club meetings and find them to be all I need. I've run VOACAP on
everything from an Windows 95 machine to a Vista machine. The second one is
NEC, the numerical Electromagnet
ic Code. Its development has been funded by the Army, Navy, and AF labs
and the DOE National labs, primarily, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Its
based on the Method of Moments techniques developed at Syracuse University.
A free (again no quotes) GUI called 4NEC2 is available on the internet.
I've had no problems running it on XP and Vista machines. Its still in use
by the government which has not released the latest version, NEC4. NEC2 is
quite adequate unless you're interested in buried antennas. Both these
codes really began development in the 60's and were designed to be run on
main frame computers. Now, we have main frame computer capabilities in run
of the mill pc's and laptops. If you see a commercial antenna program being
sold to amateurs, its almost certainly based on NEC and what you are paying
for is the GUI. 4NEC2 is a perfectly adequate GUI.
There is another source of some very good free software of a slightly
different type. One that I have been using for a while now is called GNU77
FORTRAN. It is similar to FORTRAN 77. MY old FORTRAN compilers won't run
on VISTA or newer operating systems so I had been looking for a newer
FORTRAN compiler that is compatible with Vista and WINDOWS 7. This is it.
I've successfully compiled and run several old FORTRAN programs and have
been quite happy with it. Places where these programs are often available
are in late 80's and 90's textbooks such as Antennas by Balinis as well as
various league publications. The're great programs if you can run them and
now I can again.
BASIC is a similar situation. BASIC used to come with many early home
computers such as Atari 800, TRS 80, Color Computer, early IBM PC's, and was
include with Windows, at least through Windows 98. Its not any more and no,
Visual Basic doesn't seem to resemble the BASIC I learned. One of the
companies sells a professional version of BASIC called Liberty Basic. It
costs $49.95 (Hardly a professional price!). What is of more interest is
they also have a free junior version called Just Basic available on the
internet. I had the same problem with BASIC that I did with FORTRAN. MY
old BASIC interpreters will not run on new Microsoft operating systems
(Thank you, Microsoft!). I had been looking for a way to run some of my old
BASIC routines and couldn't on my newer computers. Just Basic seems to be
the answer. I've been able to run several of my old programs.
There is another GNU program called GIMP for GNU Image Manipulation Program
which seems to do many of the things that Adobe Photoshop can do. And the
price is right, free!. I have used Adobe Photoshop at work and have been
able to pick up GIMP without much problem.
Finally, if you are actually going to write programs, you will need some
kind of a text editor. A professional text editor available for free is
Crimson Editor. It is ideal for writing program text. Microsoft has a few
editorsn that may already be on your computer such as Notepad and Wordpad..
They have some quircks (Yes, this is Microsoft) such as limitations on the
file extensions you can use. For instance .FOR is not allowed so the
FORTRAN compiler wont recognize the program you wrote.
If any one is interested in any of this just catch me at a club meeting
and/or send me an e-mail. No, I'm really not a computer guy, but I've been
working on and around them since the late 60's as anything from analysis
tools to targets. I would guess that any one who played with home comuters
in the 70's andd 80's taught themselves BASIC and any one who had
engineering or science from the 60's through the 80's learned FORTRAN. Its
still fun and there is a lot of neat stuff you can do. And no I'm not a fan
of Microsoft and PC's, but being realistic, if you're working in a technical
field you will be using sa PC with Windows on it and there are things I'd
much rather do than try to keep current on PC's and Mac's.
I would be happy to bring my laptop to a club meeting and show anyone
interested these programs. NEC/4NEC2, for instance, has a couple hundred
ham antenna models that are quite excellent and include vertical arrays, log
periodics, colinears, yagis, etc. you can change dimensions, height above
ground, ground properties, etc at will. VOACAP also includes an antenna
modeling tool which has several antennas of interest to hams as well as a
few antennas for dreames like rhombics and curtain arrays used by shortwave
broadcaster.
Kerry
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:44:06 -0600
From: "John Huecksteadt" <johnh at beecreek.net>
Subject: Re: [HCARC] AC4CA's win
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Thanks, Bob. It was fun! -John
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