Guy,
The cost will depend on yur situation.
You will need a license for NEC-4, which is about $800 commercial, $150 to
approved educational sites.
Then you will need either to develop your own I/O system or purchase one
of the commercial packages. There are 2. One is EZNEC Pro, which is an
advanced version of EZNEC 2 with more segments than most of us can use
(tested to 2800 or more) and with NEC-2/NEC-4/NEC-4D (double precision
NEC-4) cores. The other is GNEC, just now emerging from Nittany
Scientific, which is a windows 95 product. It enables use of virtually
the entire NEC Deck (all allowed inputs, including helices, caternary
wires, networks, Green's functions, etc.) with both NEC-2/NEC-4 cores.
Price range for commercial software is $600-800, with a proof of license
required before the NEC-4 core can be shipped.
Contact information is in an article in the current QEX or at my web site,
along with URLs for available web pages.
Hope this is useful.
-73-
LB, W4RNL
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