On 3/11/21 12:15 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
"Jerry Burke, the primary author of the antenna-modeling software NEC,
died on February 14. He had been suffering from cancer. NEC (numerical
electromagnetics code) evolved out of a program called BRACT, which
Burke and others developed in 1967. The most common public version is
NEC-2. -- Thanks to Jim Breakall, WA3FET"
I didn't realize that the roots of NEC went back this far.
Jerry produced amazing results especially considering what he
had to work with in 1967 (IBM 360, keypunch, line printer, etc).
Probably written in the wonderful language of Fortran.
Those were the days.
Found it..
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/193922195.pdf
The Numerical Electromagnetics Code (NEC) – A Brief History
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