I highly recommend Kurt Andress's program YagiStress. Kurt's callsign is
NI6W. I dont have current contact info for him. I believe he is in
Nevada now. Kurt's program is used by a lot of the big guys now.
Bill
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Charlie Ocker wrote:
> Greetings, fellow TowerTalk-ians,
>
> Does anyone know of any PUBLIC DOMAIN softare (pc or sun unix) for performing
> antenna element mechanical design?
>
> I have a collection of aluminum tubing that I'd like to use for a homebrew 40m
> shortened rotatable dipole.
>
> I have a copy of s/w to compute the electrical length of tapered elements, so
> this is not a problem.
>
> What I'd like to do is to be able to design the rotatable dipole with the
> materials that I have on hand with some piece of mind that it won't self
> destruct during the first good wind that comes along, THEN determine it's
> electrical length with the tapered element s/w. After that, I figure
> determining the amount of loading necessary to make the element resonate
> where I
> want should be fairly straightfoward.
>
> Tnx es 73,
>
> Charlie N9CO ocker@chasind.com
>
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