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Old July 28th 08, 10:24 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna,sci.electronics.design
Jim Lux Jim Lux is offline
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Default Does reactance of dipole depend on diameter ??

Dave wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote:


Since you clearly know more about this stuff than me, do you know of the
best freely available software for this which works under Unix? (I use
Sun's Solaris for 99% of the things I do, including sending this
message. I use Solaris on my laptop too, rather than Windows).

Hence I'm almost certainly looking for source code in either C, C++ or
Fortran. Anything that works under Linux would almost certainly be able
to be compiled for Solaris without too much effort.


FORTRAN would be the language of choice (since that's what NEC was
written *and validated* in.. one would be concerned about a C
translation, although I'm sure there are C versions out there which have
been validated)

It then tries to link with the 'blas', 'atlas' and 'lapack_atlas'
libraries, none of which my Sun has.


There should be versions out there that don't link with the matrix math
packages.


Anyway, if you have any recommendations for the best freely available
Unix/Linux code, I would be interested.


What you've got is probably as good as anything else, especially if
you're just looking for a table of Z vs length and diameter.