On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:38:35 -0400, Leland C. Scott wrote:

Anybody have a recommendation for an open source NEC based antenna program
that runs on Linux? If there are any utilities that can display the antenna
structure and field patterns that would be a bonus. Plus has anybody used
the OpenOffice program "Calc", or some other utility, to automate the
generation of the input card deck?

I know about the following site:

http://www.si-list.net/swindex.html

I just haven't had time to play with any of the Linux software. I was hoping
somebody else already has done so.

Debian shows the following in its Stable repository:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/nec
http://packages.debian.org/stable/science/necpp
http://packages.debian.org/stable/python/python-necpp
http://packages.debian.org/stable/hamradio/xnecview

The home page of XNECView appears to be he

http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/ham/xnecview/

I've not played with any of this, but may do so in the future.

73, de Nate

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