NEC-LIST: W5GFE in Perl/Tk

This stuff is available under GPL via FTP at

        cs.ecok.edu/pub/W5GFE.tar.gz

Hope someone can use it.

73 de Bill W5GFE

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NAME

  W5GFE Antenna Toolkit - a Perl Toolkit for analysis of NEC2 files

SYNOPSIS

  Necview

  Azimuth [filename]

  Elevation [filename]

  Wires

DESCRIPTION

These programs are written in Perl/Tk (version 5.005_2), and provide
tools which can help to visualize antennas or analyze data which is
produced by NEC2 - the antenna modeling program.

The NEC2 program is commonly used by radio amateurs or professional
antenna designers on Unix equipment to model antennas. While NEC2 is
quite versatile, the output of NEC2 is voluminous and difficult to
read. This suite of programs provides graphical depictions of NEC2
output.

<Azimuth> provides three graphs of "horizontal" radiation patterns: an
ARRL-scaled polar plot, a linearly scaled polar plot, and a cartesian
plot. A "fact box" provides indication of -3 dB beam widths.

<Elevation> provides similar information for vertical radiation
patterns.

<Wires> is a visualization tool which shows three views of the same
antenna. Views are provided for the "XY plane", the "YZ plane" and
the "XZ plane".

<Necview> borrows heavily from the "xnecview" program by P.T. de Boer
(pa3fwm_at_amsat.org). <Necview> provides an animated view of an
antenna which can be "rotated" in three dimensions to provide
different viewpoints.

Sample data files are included in each subdirectory.

The <W5GFE Antenna Toolkit> is released under the terms of the GNU
Public License.

AUTHOR

Bill Walker, W5GFE, bw_at_cs.ecok.edu

SEE ALSO

perl(1), Wires (W5GFE), Elevation (W5GFE), Azimuth (W5GFE), Necview (W5GFE)

-- 
Bill Walker Ph.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Computer Science
East Central University
Ada, Oklahoma 74820-6899
e-mail:  bw_at_cs.ecok.edu 
phone:   580 332 8000 ext. 594
direct:  580 310 5594
FAX:     580 332 4616